Word: distinctives
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Members of the present film studies committee—whose membership is distinct from that of the FAS ad hoc film studies committee, which publishes an annual guide to film studies at Harvard—stress that the proposal is still in a preliminary stage and many of the specifics of the planned concentration have yet to be determined...
...studies deals with issues confronting the female gender, sexuality and gender studies focuses on studies of identity and sexuality for both men and women. As we have argued in the past, sexuality studies are so vital to our academic goals that the development of a new and distinct committee would better serve both students and faculty. By pressing the idea that these two separate fields can be amalgamated into one, however, the committee is undercutting this ultimate goal...
Bergman, on the other hand, has been suffering from what reportedly amounts to a more severe version of the same exact knee problem Lingman has long endured, with future arthroscopic surgery to repair a potentially torn meniscus a distinct possibility...
...psychometric world, developed abilities are distinct from school achievements. To understand the difference, consider a sports metaphor: if you learn to hit free throws 90% of the time, that's a stellar basketball achievement. But what if you're so out of shape that you can't run up and down the court? Then your achievement won't matter much in an actual game. Your level of physical fitness is a developed ability: it's both an innate skill that helps determine how well you play basketball and an outcome of playing lots of basketball. Similarly, the more you challenge...
...runs out of things to say. She is, she says, negotiating to become the "cultural ambassador" for Red Pagoda Mountain cigarettes. Gone are both the glamorous Western life that she sold in Chinese and the Mother Lake upbringing that she sells in English. The reconciliation of the two distinct sides of Namu would make for an excellent sequel...