Word: distinctives
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...beauty of [European football]," says Reyna, "is that you have countries that border each other, yet they all have a distinct style." Americans didn't have to go to Europe to be exposed to such variety. It's been on view in the U.S. for 150 years. Whenever the 11th man from any European town emigrated to the States, a football team got organized. Football, the real variety, is an American game, too. Since the 19th century, whether it was Scottish mill hands in New Jersey, Portuguese fishermen in Massachusetts, Ukrainian steel workers in Pennsylvania, Italian masons and Irish sandhogs...
With those immigrants came an approach to the game as distinct as their cuisines. Long before I ever watched the European championships - the cable sports network ESPN didn't televise any games in the U.S. until 1996 - I was familiar with Europeans' football. I had been seeing it on the field, first as a kid living in an immigrant-enriched community near Newark, N.J. - where one learned that Portuguese teams have flair and fire, and that a Scotsman has a very broad view as to what constitutes a fair challenge. My European education would continue in the Cosmopolitan Soccer League...
...those who have studied and worked with Segal, it is his imagination that has imbued him with the ability to inhabit the distinct roles of both Classics professor and famous writer...
...down as CEO of the brokerage firm he founded, but remained chairman. At the time, he said in the statement: "As many experts have suggested, from regulators to Congress to independent blue ribbon panels, it is important in today's environment that the positions of C.E.O. and chairman be distinct and that the chairman play a central role." But the next year, as the company struggled with competitors and new businesses, Schwab took back his former position. He currently serves as both CEO and chairman...
...gives totally of himself to get through to them. (The kids were discovered in a school in Paris' 20th arrondisement, put through a long workshop period to play characters who were part fictional, part themselves.) As the film unfolds, a half-dozen or more of the children reveal distinct, tough and touching personalities...