Word: distinguish
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Which is a shame, because Yglesias is a skillful, intelligent writer and the questions addressed in this novel have some real bite. To what extent are people responsible for their own behavior? Who is to assess their degree of guilt or innocence? And how is it possible to distinguish the healers from those who need healing...
...quoted Saffo, who in his decade with the nonprofit Institute for the Future has consulted for everyone from the U.S. Defense Department to a Swedish online service, prefers to distinguish between "visionaries" like Negroponte--"people who have a vision of what the future should be and are trying to make it happen"--and workaday "forecasters" like himself. "My job is to help our clients expand their perceived range of possibilities," Saffo says. Of course, in that capacity, he acknowledges, "you can affect outcomes...
Zeckhauser was quick to distinguish the HDS director search from last year's search for a new dean of public service. She points out that unlike public service, no large controversy surrounds the appointment of a new HDS director...
...Indeed, it is helpful to realize that the two parties are simply branches of the same strand--they are not separate, opposite entities as the voters are led to believe. Indeed, no matter which man gets elected, especially in the short run, the public would hardly be able to distinguish between their actions...
...ancestral homes of the Tigers, Red Sox and Yankees tell much different stories, of Ty Cobb and Ted Williams and Babe Ruth. These parks, and safe-for-now Wrigley Field, are baseball's Libraries of Alexandria, the repositories for its greatest treasures. The memories, which distinguish baseball from every other American sport, are the reasons we can't give up the game even after it abandons...