Word: distinctives
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There’s also the distinct possibility that a team could finish undefeated and not be given an opportunity to become national champions. Non-BCS conference teams—those of Conference USA, the Western Athletic Conference, the Mountain West Conference, the Mid-American Conference, the Sun Belt Conference and the I-A independents—are getting closer and closer each year to closing out an undefeated campaign. This year, TCU threatened to storm the BCS party—posting a 10-0 record and reaching as high as sixth in the BCS—until its undefeated...
...military, which may prefer Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, Mubarak's loyal Defense Minister. Mubarak himself has lately thrust intelligence chief General Omar Suleiman into the limelight by giving him the task of negotiating an Israeli-Palestinian cease-fire. Although Suleiman keeps a low profile, he has the distinct advantage of having earned the President's gratitude: in 1995 he insisted that Mubarak ride in an armored car while in Addis Ababa--where his motorcade was attacked by Egyptian terrorists...
...deep voice grumbles with the local accent and he’ll drop an ‘r’ every now and then—two distinct features that contribute to his famed press conference quips...
...deep voice grumbles with the local accent and he’ll drop an ‘r’ every now and then—two distinct features that contribute to his famed press conference quips...
...paradox of al-Qaeda in the two years since 9/11 has been that while the efforts of U.S. and allied intelligence agencies have battered its core transnational networks, al-Qaeda as a movement or an idea - as distinct from a narrow clandestine organizational network - has actually grown. Analysts believe the international intelligence and security cooperation has severely impeded al-Qaeda's ability to conduct highly sophisticated transnational terror operations such as the attacks in New York and Washington, but that Bin Laden's movement has adapted by morphing into a far more decentralized entity relying principally on the structures...