Word: distinguish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hart faced a special problem: he had to distinguish himself from his primary opponent, Herrick S. Roth, 58, who, it so happened, had worked in Colorado for McGovern. Hart's tactic was to attack not Roth but Republican Senator Peter Dominick, 59, who will be running again in November. Hart charged that Dominick, the chairman of the Senate's Republican Campaign Committee, had concealed the source of money received in 1972 from a dairy cooperative and passed it on to the Committee to Re-Elect the President. "Hogwash," said Dominick. Hart, he said, was "a liar...
...distinguish the Provisionals from the Officials chiefly by their attitudes: CHUL members are more likely to be interested in Harvard politics for its own sake; the Extracurriculars more often because they think that it reflects national trends that they're interested in. In the more politicized time of the ROTC controversy, when people had to make their arguments explicit and defend their premises, the differences came out quite strongly. Most of the Provisionals, then centered around Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), wanted ROTC kicked off campus because they thought an organization like the United States Army didn't have...
Views that distinguish the resentful group include: a belief that there is no justice for the poor (47% v. 18%), that people in power are not as trustworthy as they used to be (82% v. 57%), that Government is taking people's freedom away (62% v. 32%), that too much attention is being paid to minority groups (48% v. 41%) and that the state of morals in the country is bad and getting worse...
Chris Jagger is Mick's brother but otherwise doesn't seem to have done much to distinguish himself. He's at the Performance Center this week, where big name and big flash often seem to take precedence over good music...
Echoing Brennan. Some publishers and movie officials felt the decision might help force porn-hunting prosecutors to distinguish between purple movies and publications and those that are merely blue. The ruling, said Film Industry Spokesman Jack Valenti, had strengthened "the freedom of the film maker to tell an honest story without hard-core pornography." Others were less enthusiastic. Echoing Justice Brennan, Playboy Enterprises' Robert A. Gutwillig complained that Carnal Knowledge was "a pitching back to the case-by-case review. The court is saying we don't know what it [pornography] is, but we'll know...