Word: distinctness
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With each passing day, Weinstein only gets stronger as a skater. He has a distinct size advantage which affords him power, explosive speed, and a commanding presence in the lane...
...letter "Vermont Decision Ignores Tradition," (Letters, Feb. 28) Melissa Moschella attempts to argue that heterosexual intercourse is somehow "distinct" from homosexual intercourse because only man and woman can experience "unique two-in-one-flesh communion," in which the spouses are "truly united." The fact that heterosexual sex is thus superior, she concludes, means that only opposite-sex couples should be allowed to marry, in order to encourage this superior and socially useful form...
...quest led Van Roosmalen into a previously unstudied region of the Amazon, bursting with biodiversity. So far, he and his colleagues have identified seven never before seen species of primates, a distinct species of peccary (a wild pig), a lost cousin of the Brazil-nut tree and an anthurium with leaves bigger than elephant ears. And best of all, Van Roosmalen stumbled on traces of an agricultural technique--invented by Stone Age tribes around 10,000 years ago--that may help save the Amazon from the damage caused by farmers who slash and burn the forest to clear land...
...this one. I more liked the novel than disliked it, but its author will survive in my mind mostly as a rising talent, not as a full-fledged master. For all Moth Smoke's insights, it smells of trendiness, and I suspect that it will not survive past its distinct historical setting--a setting made possible by the atomic volatility of the region, and the state of Pakistani gender and class politics...
Profits from the hotel currently go to two distinct purposes. Half of the money the hotel earns goes toward repaying the debt incurred by the construction of the building. The rest goes to FAS, where it is put in an endowment for Faculty recruitment, according to Associate Dean for Finance in FAS Ann E. Berman...