Word: distinguish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Randall says he often likes to spend a whole interview leading up to a last question pitting the interviewee against six other imaginary applicants--to simulate the one-in-seven chosen situation and by asking him to distinguish himself "and tell me why we should take you over the others...
...years devising his system. An eccentric polymath who trained as a research chemist at London University, he is now press officer for the British Library. He worked on his directory at home while watching television. "I continue to be astonished that such a simple test should be adequate to distinguish more than 10,000 classical themes," he says modestly. His publishers are even more surprised at the volume's brisk sales. Before reviews appeared, and despite a stiff hardback price of ?6 (about $14), bookshops began reordering...
...problems of refugees waiting to be granted asylum in America must be dealt with immediately. But the American government has no right to distinguish between those refugees who are "qualified" to become U.S. citizens, and those who aren't, between acceptable groups and unacceptable ones. Some of the prostitutes Sen. Byrd feels are "undesirables," for example, became prostitutes precisely because of the war. By the same token, refugees cannot be judged by criteria which separate their politics and actions from the American policies that directed them. The Vietnamee police is one group liable to rejection by the U.S. Their functions...
...justice is being sought for Vietnam war criminals, then the place to start is not with middle-echelon refugees, but with American policy-makers like Nixon and Kissinger, the men who engineered the Christmas bombing of Hanoi in 1972. And if the war has not taught us to distinguish policy-makers from those who carry out their plans, we should not screen out members of the Phoenix project or tiger-cage guards until the same standards have been applied to their American advisers, American soldiers who committed atrocities, or American pilots who bombed harmless villages...
...flexibility of human nature makes it impossible to distinguish generic influences on human behavior, Lewontin said...