Word: distinctness
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...Miata, with its convertible top and intense colors, is the only product of the Los Angeles studios that exudes a distinct regional pizazz -- the first truly postmodern automobile, both a reinterpretation of and an improvement upon nostalgically recalled classic sports cars. Yet despite all the drafting tables suddenly clustered together, the Miata does not signal the emergence of a canonical L.A. style...
Unlike the current struggles in those regions, however, the American version isn't about distinct ethnicities with different languages and cultures fighting for extrication from a contrived union. It's not even about Black versus white. The Duke phenomenon and the politics surrounding it go beyond limited debates about racism in Louisiana. In the U.S., the struggles are about getting elected...
...will hold together. Carried to its illogical extreme, in fact, the movement toward disintegration could splinter the former U.S.S.R. into upwards of 40, mostly mini, countries -- the 15 full republics plus some of the 20 autonomous republics, eight autonomous regions and 10 smaller autonomous areas. Most are homelands of distinct ethnic groups that cherish ambitions to become autonomous in fact as well as name...
...exploded into being 20 billion years ago and grew by way of gravity's tug, they postulate a cosmos trillions of years old and shaped not by gravity but by electricity and magnetism. Their evidence comes mainly from lab experiments showing that electromagnetic forces can pull hot gases into distinct structures. Most astrophysicists dismiss this idea, but alternative schemes offered by mainstream thinkers are almost as wild. Many groups are exploring the idea that the Big Bang created strange energy formations, largely undetectable in the cosmic background radiation, variously dubbed cosmic strings, global textures or cosmological constants...
...convicted of crimes; the others are awaiting trial for acts ranging from the importation of explosives to the 1985 hijacking of the cruise ship Achille Lauro. Perez de Cuellar signaled that the release of any of these prisoners would not be considered; he called them a "legal problem," as distinct from the "political problem" of the hostages...