Word: distinctness
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...already blamed by opponents for coming within 50,000 votes of "losing the country" in the last referendum, in 1995. His government has attempted to promote the idea of Canadian unity in Quebec and has tried to persuade the country's provincial leaders to recognize Quebec as a "distinct society" in the country's constitution. "It's a question of dignity," Chretien told TIME last week. "The fact that 85% of Quebeckers speak French is not a concept. It's a reality...
...pieces of the novel don't really hang together. There are at least three such segments, almost distinct enough to be separate stories. The first is lazy, easy, short--no more than a dozen pages--an ear-perfect comedy routine of the ancient, comfortable insults that men use to get through a day of work. Virgil Caudill, in his early 30s, is laboring his way up to foreman on the Rocksalt, Ky., garbage-collecting crew. He and his pals jaw away at one another about an almighty hangover one of them has shown up with, about a flashy woman...
Founded in 1879 as the "Harvard Annex," Radcliffe now is legally, fiscally and programmatically distinct from Harvard...
...view, just fierce attention to the moment at hand. It is hard to see how Offutt?s chapters could be more effective in the skill of their telling. Yet the pieces of the novel don't really hang together, notes Skow. There are at least three such segments, almost distinct enough to be separate stories, and in them Virgil's character swings wildly from ordinary and a bit slow to shrewd man of action to passive observer...
Dayle B. Delancey '92, a resident tutor in Pforzheimer, says she has noticed a distinct decline in food quality at the end of this year...