Word: distinguish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...media does not distinguish between Asians and Asian-Americans," said Shieh. "Asian-Americans never have any political influence unless it's as a scapegoat...
...Exhibited on the same monitor, Suicide Box, by a group of artists calling themselves Bureau of Inverse Technology, provides a wry panoptic proposal for installing suicide detection boxes on the Golden Gate Bridge. Ever friendly to death toll tabulators and those who follow their statistics, the boxes can even distinguish between an errant sea gull and a falling body...
...starvation on a daily basis. Housing men and women in space stations seems futile when homeless people slumber just outside my door. Perhaps it is merely an end of innocence, but the intergalactic dreams of my youth have become the cosmic fears and realities of my adulthood. Theologians distinguish between "other-worldly" and "this-worldly" philosophies and it is not with remorse that I cleave to the latter. Call it juvenile cynicism or ignorant incredulity. Space has been disenchanted forever...
...seems sensible that the Committee admit two types of courses for Core credit: Core courses intended for non-concentrators, as it does now, and certain courses offered within the departments, intended for concentrators. The difference in the target audience would distinguish the guidelines of these two approval systems...
Could the Heaven's Gaters distinguish pop fable from cold truth? Can we? Once we could. Not many of us took My Favorite Martian or Mork & Mindy as sacred texts. Frankenstein may have been a parable of science gone haywire and Dracula a metaphor for the wages of sex, but we knew they were just stories. Invasion of the Body Snatchers didn't spur an epidemic of podophobia...