Word: distinctives
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...Shultz noted as he arrived in Helsinki, the Soviets had proclaimed such a unilateral moratorium before, in the late '50s and early '60s, and then had abruptly begun what he described as "the largest nuclear-testing program ever undertaken." Nonetheless, the Gorbachev proposal's simplicity and emotional appeal had distinct propaganda advantages, particularly in Western Europe. The Soviet offer also came at a time when the Kremlin has given intriguing, if nebulous, hints that it might be willing to propose a variety of new across-the-board reductions in the strategic-missile stockpiles of the superpowers...
...their babies through laboratory tinkering. Yet an episode about Bijan, whose snooty clothing stores in Beverly Hills and New York City are open to clients by appointment only, is a puff job that Mudd gamely but unsuccessfully tries to tie in to Americans' desire to be distinct in a democratic society...
...microtonal tuning, which he has long advocated, requires singers and instrumentalists to produce quarter-tone intervals, so that an octave is divided into 24 pitches instead of the conventional twelve. Yet each of the disparate elements in the opera has a dramatic function, giving characters or groups of characters distinct musical personalities...
...arguably as important to a track’s success. Good production makes an epic difference, as can be seen in the prominent diversity on Jay-Z’s “Black Album,” where a slate of different studio gurus give each song a distinct match-up to the H.O.V.A.’s rhymes. Studio musicians in rock and pop don’t enjoy the same opportunity for fame that rap producers do, and it’s a shame: the musicians behind a huge percentage of certain radio stations go completely unnoticed...
...yesterday, the Harvard Office of Career Services hosted a counterterrorism career panel that included representatives from the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of Homeland Security, and two non-partisan security think tanks. Joining the panelists were two distinct groups of Harvard students: one genuinely interested in potential careers in counter-terrorism, and another group consisting of rude, self-proclaimed morally superior, intellectually indoctrinated protestors. Let me be perfectly clear, while a tasteful protest marched on outside the Science Center, I am referring to the disruptive protestors sitting at the event. The propagandists’ techniques of disruption varied: their base...