Word: distinctness
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...Turow regularly does: "Jonathan Galassi ((editor in chief at Farrar, Straus & Giroux)) made recommendations that substantially improved both Presumed Innocent and The Burden of Proof. After the way I've been treated by my publisher, I'd be a schmuck to think about going somewhere else." That is a distinct departure in an age when publishing-world loyalties have been swept away by bidding wars and the lure of big advances...
...looked as if Managua would get more. In neighboring El Salvador, meanwhile, Marxist guerrillas had launched their strongest offensive in years, managing to trap twelve American Green Berets in a luxury hotel. President Bush responded by dispatching a contingent of Delta Force commandos. U.S. intervention seemed a distinct possibility. Then on Nov. 25 came an even greater shock for Washington. An unmarked plane carrying 24 SA-7 surface-to- air missiles crashed in El Salvador. The weapons were intended for the F.M.L.N. guerrillas -- a clear violation of repeated Soviet assurances that surface-to-air missiles would not reach El Salvador...
...ability to press the Salvadoran government to reform would be lost. It was Aronson's turn to reassure Pavlov. If the arms flow to the F.M.L.N. was reduced, he said, Washington would "do all it could" to press for serious negotiations. The echoes of the Nicaraguan settlement are distinct: Baker is trying to fashion the same kind of bipartisan accord on El Salvador that worked so well for Nicaragua, and the U.S. is strongly supporting the current U.N.-mediated peace talks between the government and the F.M.L.N...
...decades, the French-speaking majority in Quebec has sought official recognition as a "distinct society" within the overwhelmingly English- speaking nation. Three years ago, at a meeting with the ten provincial premiers at Meech Lake in the Gatineau hills of Quebec, Mulroney devised a set of amendments that would finally satisfy the demands of the Quebecois and bring them to sign the national constitution "with honor and enthusiasm." But by last week the Meech Lake accord had turned a symbol of renewed division and intolerance between English- and French-speaking Canadians...
...slide in the contemporary market -- the junk bonds, as distinct from the Impressionist blue chips -- is not helped by the fact that some of the biggest buyers of former years, like advertising mogul Charles Saatchi, are now strapped for cash and have turned into sellers...