Word: distinctives
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...Beranbaum knows from baking. The author of the million-copies-sold The Cake Bible spends most days thinking about what to do with flour, butter and sugar. That task became even more satisfying about eight years ago when she discovered a fleet of organic and unrefined sugars that have distinct flavors. "Sugar is no longer just a sweetener," she says of this new class of specialty sugars from exotic locales like Costa Rica and Paraguay. "It's now a flavoring ingredient that brings a whole new spectrum to the artist's palette of taste...
Playing with the boys offers its own distinct advantages. Linda Norman, 33, president of a Web-design company in Dallas, recently began attending networking poker events for executives, typically male. "It's a social setting where they find out you're competitive and intelligent," she says. "They see you as someone they can do business with." Other card-playing businesswomen say poker can help sharpen business skills. It teaches how to think strategically and size up the competition and the risk- reward ratio of each situation swiftly and objectively...
That became a distinct possibility last Tuesday, when the ethics committee announced that it would not begin the final phase of its investigation of Gingrich until Jan. 8, one day after the scheduled vote to re-elect the Speaker. Its schedule meant House members would have to decide on Gingrich without knowing what punishment the committee would recommend. Meanwhile, there was a prospect of more embarrassing disclosures later this month when Cole, the special investigator hired by the committee, will lay out his case...
...replied, "the entire controversy could have been avoided easily if the Oakland school board knew how to speak better English. They had the right idea, after all. It makes perfect sense to help teachers understand that youngsters from underclass neighborhoods speak differently from other Americans and that their distinctive speech patterns don't mean the kids are stupid." He continued, "In fact, school systems in California and other states have been using this idea since the 1970s, when some scholars concluded that Black English is a distinct language with its own grammatical rules. Since more than half the black students...
...radical feminism” to the writings of the 20th-century French writer Simon De Beauvoir, Mansfield argued that the questions and confusion facing feminists arise from their attempt at achieving “autonomy” and asserting that “men and women have no distinct nature.” Mansfield appeared most comfortable when answering questions from the audience. He emphasized the role that nature plays in gender behavior and the necessity of the traditional family structure. Audience members questioned the professor on the validity of both contentions. Ryan R. Thoreson...