Word: distinctively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...important thing to realize about sexism at Harvard is that it is very subtle. And in its subtlety lies its strength--some women deny that it exists at all. But it does, and it exists on two fairly distinct levels, the academic and the social. Academic sexism is less noticeable, less important in an everyday context--unless you're in a heavily male field such as the sciences, where the professors still tend to look on women as members of an inferior species. There are of course a fair number of horror stories floating around--usually concerning persistent section...
...Distinct Minority. If and when the Premier does depart, the leading contender for his post appears to be General Carlos Fabião, army Chief of Staff and a political independent. Fabião was present when the nine moderates, led by former Foreign Minister Ernesto Melo Antunes, met with Costa Gomes. The nine had all been ousted from the ruling Revolutionary Council earlier this month after they circulated a document protesting Portugal's drift toward an Eastern European brand of socialism and calling for a return to a pluralistic political system. The nine claimed to have the support...
...represented in proportion to its showing at the polls in the April election. This would mean that the Socialists and the Popular Democrats, who together won 64% of the vote, would dominate a new Cabinet. The Communists, on the basis of their electoral showing of 12.5%, would become a distinct minority. To win the support of the populist Saraiva de Carvalho, who had previously opposed a traditional party system, the moderates reportedly offered to allow local workers' commissions...
...happens, a swarm of small earthquakes had taken place at approximately the time of the Moscow meeting. Aggarwal's subsequent analysis bore out the Russian claims: before each quake, there had been a distinct drop in the lead time of the P waves...
Kimball points out that the alumni office is designed to be distinct from fundraising efforts, and she says it would "resist anyone interested in raising funds sponsoring an alumni college." Every alumni college is designed to break even, she says, and if it isn't self-supporting, it won't be offered...