Word: distinguish
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...students work hard all through school and then lose their spots to members of certain groups who have lower test scores, and come from less challenging environments. They get an unfair advantage." Crosby deliberately did not include the words "black" or "African American" in the conversation, in order to distinguish glances that could be based on simple association - looking at a black person when "black" is mentioned - from those looking for the African American's reaction...
...assumption is that the collective wisdom of journalists and researchers can provide guidance as to who will make the best leader. Clearly it is a subjective call, but most readers can distinguish between editorial content and general reporting. No one is being told how to vote. Readers have the choice to make up their own mind. Steven A. Ludsin, EAST HAMPTON...
...Critics note that studies such as those mentioned above rarely distinguish between legal and illegal immigrants. Reliable data that separates the two groups is hard to find, but Indiana University economist Eric Rasmusen has culled figures from a 2005 GAO report on foreigners incarcerated in Federal and state prisons to calculate that illegal immigrants commit 21% of all crime in the United States, costing the country more than $84 billion. Rasmusen contends the distinction is important because immigrants with a green card or U.S. citizenship have already jumped through several legal hoops to live and work in the U.S., including...
Deputy Leader David Owen, a physician by training, who was first elected to Parliament in 1966, campaigned superbly, leading some newspapers to speculate how much better the S.D.P. might have done with him at the top instead of Jenkins. The "other David," as he is commonly called to distinguish him from Steel, would dearly love to be leader and will probably not discourage a movement to displace Jenkins...
...longing for easy boundaries is appealing now that navigating media is so hard. The call to keep prime time safe is a kind of nostalgia for an era when there were three networks and prime time meant something. Today your TV remote doesn't distinguish between broadcast and cable. A 10 p.m. drama can stream online or play on DVR or DVD at any hour. It's always prime time, or it never...