Word: distinguishable
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...Harvard is far from perfect. And in the future, there will be instances when students act out to change University policy. But by initiating this policy, Summers is implicitly abridging the freedom of disciplinary boards to distinguish between worthwhile and unjustified acts of protest. A suspension may be too harsh a punishment, depending on the situation...
Such disputes seem likely to proliferate as selective breeding, grafting and genetic manipulation, along with improved farming techniques, make it harder to distinguish product origins. At the same time, producers of popular regional foods around the world are flexing their muscles as never before...
...Without a whiz-bang new technology to distinguish itself from competitors, Japan's largest company is vulnerable to threats to its dominance of the domestic wireless market. Some 67.5 million?more than of Japan's population?already subscribe to mobile-phone services, and analysts say the market is approaching saturation. Net growth in subscriptions fell 31.7% in December compared with the same month in 2000, after falling 26% in November, according to Merrill Lynch. While DoCoMo holds a 59% market share, competition for new and existing users is fierce. KDDI's au and Tu-ka services, with...
...Never mind that ichthyologists have found that U.S. catfish and Vietnamese basa are virtually indistinguishable genetically. Never mind that importers of basa defy anyone in a blind taste test to distinguish their product from U.S. catfish. This battle isn't about science or succulence so much as it is about politics and commerce...
...Such disputes seem likely to proliferate as selective breeding, grafting and genetic manipulation, along with improved farming techniques, make it harder to distinguish product origins. At the same time, producers of popular regional foods around the world are flexing their muscles as never before...