Word: distinguish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this world can authoritatively distinguish between prurient interests and normal, healthy, sexual interests? Is not the sexual pleasure that pornography brings to some people in itself of "redeeming social value...
...that highly-rated graduate departments "place very little importance on test scores," but rather that GRE scores are but one input among many in the admissions process. In particular, undergraduate academic achievement and faculty recommendations are likely to be given more weighty consideration. Furthermore, it is important to distinguish between the GRE aptitude test scores and the GRE advanced test (psychology) score: a number of graduate departments consider the former to be a valuable indicator, while discounting the value of the latter...
...hear President Bok and his boys like to play borderline ball," Swanson said yesterday during his daily workout at Hifzi's Garage. "Well, in my 'hood, we feel that ceaseless agitation and uncertainty distinguish the bourgeols era from all others. We don't wear neckties, but we're definitely in a class at once above and below the filthy Junkers." "All that is holy is profaned," he said...
...necessity of taking legal measures against these firms points to one of the most unfortunate situations in education here--that many professors and teaching fellows don't know their students well enough to distinguish a store-bought item from the student's own work...
Adrift centers around the tensions and confusion of a simple and moral man unable to deal with the temptation that befalls him. Since the story is told through his eyes, and because in his profound spiritual guilt he can no longer distinguish between the real and the fantasized, his shame and uncertainty color the movie. At least this much is clear: Yanos, an ordinary fisherman, saves from the river a naked girl. His wife revives her and easily accepts into the family this quiet, mysterious stranger whose past--even the attempted suicide--remains unexplained. Yanos, however, is powerfully attracted...