Word: distinctness
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...other hand, completely met all the demands placed upon it. Against one backdrop, designer John Ruark Was able to hold three distinct scenes and a couch enclosed with curtains. The set looked as if it was made very cheaply, but with excellent skill. An upside-down garbage can became a table and the frame for the curtains looked as if it were hammered together the day before. This gave an odd look to the backdrop that matched the oddness of the setting...
...chief executive officers and chairs of the board of five Harvard Medical School teaching hospitals meet over the next six months to study ways to further cooperation, almost everything will be on the table. Power, money and national health care will influence decisions, but the distinct character of the hospitals will be the biggest factor...
Homosexuals are particularly vulnerable in this situation because, distinct from most other minorities, they are born into a family of people unlike themselves. Even the most liberal-minded heterosexual may stop for a moment and think, "Well, do I want my child to be gay?" In that moment of reflection lies the danger of genocide. No, it wouldn't have the calculated and theatrical horror of the concentration camps, but a minority population would be destroyed...
...Democratic nomination a year ago, "Where there is no vision, the people perish." Democracy as such is not in doubt today: most people would pass up the chance to have another "strong" leader like Hitler or Stalin. But the debate over where democracy can take societies, as distinct from whether it is a good thing, was frozen for many years by the cold war struggle. In its wake, governments are hard pressed to supply inspiration...
...Ironically, Allan A. Ryan Jr., described this process in his book...'My aim was to follow two distinct lines of investigation: first, to reexamine the existing evidence, both the prosecution and defense; second, to search for any new evidence that would shed light on the truth...