Word: distinctness
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...Hernandez—who herself will graduate with a certificate from the Rockefeller Center—continues to assert the academic importance of studying Latino culture and history as a distinct field...
...Bureau is subsumed within a medical system, its distinct niche within the community will disappear, and before long, the Bureau and its educational niche will disappear with it,” the letter stated. “While the Bureau may remain in name and address, its distinctive nature and role will inevitably cease to exist...
...Mark lived in the basement,” Alter recalls, “which was full of books. I remember having the distinct impression at the end of the summer that he had read every book in the place...
...maybe it's time for him to move on to another locale, even if it's one where the pastis is not as good. In his new novel, A Good Year (Knopf; 287 pages), there's a distinct feeling of a writer going through the motions. This time Mayle's story involves the boutique wine industry, vineyards that produce just a few hundred cases a year, some of them going for tens of thousands of dollars. (For the record, France's largest exports are heavy machinery and transportation equipment, but what would you rather read about on the beach this...
...single student group, critics would be right to insist that organization simply “follow procedure” to obtain space. But the women’s center is not a typical student group. It would be open to all females at Harvard; and, while over a dozen distinct groups—from the Association of Black Harvard Women to the Radcliffe Union of Students—have voiced the need for a center, the standard process doesn’t allow them to apply jointly for the center they wish to share...