Word: distinguish
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Educators can point to all sorts of data to support this new direction. Students who are depressed or angry literally cannot learn. Children who have trouble being accepted by their classmates are 2 to 8 times as likely to drop out. An inability to distinguish distressing feelings or handle frustration has been linked to eating disorders in girls...
...chair. But the fall TV season has brought two new women to late night: Stephanie Miller, the brash former host of a top-rated Los Angeles radio show, and the husky-voiced former supermodel (and co-star of this season's Central Park West) Lauren Hutton. Both aspire to distinguish themselves with shows that are, in at least some respects, stylized and unconventional...
Actually, the sweeping denunciations of affirmative action that you hear nowadays rarely trouble to distinguish between affirmative action practiced by the government and affirmative action in the private sector. And this is reasonable enough. After all, the allegedly poisonous effects of affirmative action are the same, no matter whether it is private or government-sponsored. In either case, there is a white (or male) "victim." A white student cannot qualify for an Oseola McCarty scholarship because it is restricted exclusively to blacks. Since the premise of the scholarship is that it makes college possible for those who otherwise could...
Which creased face of age, which inconsolable howl from a child, could distinguish some nominal victor from vanquished? Scores of thousands of Croatian Serbs flowed to Serbia, Bosnian Croats to Croatia and Muslims from centuries-old homelands in Bosnia to the last strongholds of their community. As foreign observers adduced evidence of a terrible death that may have befallen 5,000 or more army-age Muslim men in Srebrenica, an eastern Bosnian town conquered by Serbs last month, the U.N. began to document deeds that were perhaps just as appalling, albeit much less extensive, against some Serbs uprooted by Croatian...
...Exam group numbers] were only in Roman numerals to distinguish them from the other numbers, but now that we specify what [the other numbers] are, it's not necessary," Smith said. "I think Roman numerals are just a little more difficult to use than regular numbers...