Word: distinguish
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...hearings, even Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman John Kerry was raising concerns about pledges for future donations. "There is a legitimate question, and I think, Senator, you'd agree that it's hard to distinguish between a donation currently made and - and acknowledged publicly - and a donation to be made in the future, a commitment made to but not acknowledged publicly." (See the members of Obama's White House...
...unable to distinguish joy from fear. My 11-year-old sister laughs as she imagines how people all over the world watch the horrific events taking place in the Gaza Strip. "It's like we are in a scary movie. I'm sure people eat popcorn as they watch," she says. My 12- and 14-year-old brothers act out scenes from our reality while quoting Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, their favorite video game, and we laugh hysterically at their performance. Moments later we tense up at the sound of a violent, earthquake-like explosion close...
...some point in history, we decided to keep meat out of our dessert. Maybe it was to distinguish dessert from the rest of the meal, or maybe it's because beef-flavored birthday cake tends to make kids cry. But suddenly menus everywhere have deemed bacon an acceptable crossover. The landmark Brown Hotel in Louisville, Ky., does a bacon baklava. More, a cupcake shop in Chicago, sells three bacon flavors. Animal in Los Angeles serves a deeply satisfying bacon chocolate crunch bar. At New York City's Dovetail, the bread pudding with bacon brittle is so popular...
...turmoil, may restrict the new dean’s first moves. As the University prepares to tighten its belt, Kagan’s successor will inherit the responsibility of making decisions based on financial compromises.As a result, Law School professor Richard H. Fallon said, it will be difficult to distinguish any changes brought about by a new dean from those forced by the economic climate.Fallon said that by the nature of the varied demands in the job description, the next dean of the Law School faces a “virtually impossible” job upon moving into Kagan?...
...distinguish between all kinds of issues here," says Michael Gazzaniga, director of the Sage Center for the Study of Mind at the University of California at Santa Barbara and an author of the Nature editorial. "Habits are not addictions, necessarily." Nonetheless, because addicts tend to rationalize their use and because stimulants can engender overconfidence, using drugs as enhancement can be problematic for the minority of users who may develop a true addiction...