Word: distinguish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...barbed wire is, well, barbed wire. But collectors know that there are some 1,500 varieties of the metal fencing, used for over a century to keep cattle from destroying farm lands. Early manufacturers created a wide variety of prongs, prickers, stickers and other barbs. An expert can easily distinguish a brand known as the Dodge Rowell from, say, Hunt's Double Plate Lock Link. Prices vary according to the age, condition and variety of the wire, and range from giveaways to more than $100 for an 18-in. segment. Rare varieties like the Hunt could...
Rival Rallies. Even before that, the council moved swiftly against what Costa Gomes described as "those few persons who cannot distinguish between being free and being liberated, confusing democracy with the absence of authority and legality." Two radical leftist parties, the tiny Alliance of Workers and Farmers and the student-dominated Movement for the Reorganization of the Proletariat Party (M.R.P.P.), were banned. Both were accused of staging violent street demonstrations and disrupting rival political rallies, but some observers thought that they were being eliminated at the behest of Portugal's Moscow-oriented Communists. "The Communist game is to play...
...Rosenthal, managing editor of the New York Times, calls CBS's "memoir" theory invalid. "They will be presenting this as a news program ... So how do they distinguish between this and an interview with the Shah of Iran?" Reasons Reston: "The danger is that the flow of much important information will be commercialized, and the public will be left with the best interviews money...
Fisher has accumulated a throng of "collateral interests" that he cultivates because he is a man who does not like to distinguish between his vocations and avocations. He has played the recorder since law school ("The problem of getting the next note was a pleasant occupational relief from the problem of studying law") and he is the only one of his father's children to have inherited the old man's fondness for bird-watching. Fisher also cooks, sketches, sails and plays chamber music...
...basic knowledge that public leaders need to carry out their responsibilities is very much a seamless web. For simplicity's sake, however, it is possible to distinguish among three major forms of knowledge: a familiarity with the more sophisticated analytic methods that are increasingly used in the planning and evaluation of public programs; a knowledge of methods of organization and management together with an understanding of the political processes that influence government action; and a sensitivity to the problems of ethics and competing values that inhere in all forms of public activity...