Word: distinguishable
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When Franko Simatovic was first dispatched from his native Belgrade to Croatia in 1991, there was little to distinguish him from other young Yugoslav intelligence officers drafted into the early days of Serbia's war effort. Slobodan Milosevic was whipping up Serbian nationalism, and the rest of the world was only dimly aware of the simmering ethnic mix that was about to explode in Yugoslavia. Tall, with fair hair, fluent in English and several other languages, "Frenki" was noted for his calm, professorial manner--and a fondness for Raybans. His main accomplishment was having successfully spied on U.S. diplomats...
...many of the frames you read two words in the place of one. Only at one end of the strip do the words become clear: there's "Technical Staff," under that "E.B." someone, maybe "Gibson," then "Marcel Delgado," "Fred Reese," "Orville Goldener" maybe, and a last name impossible to distinguish...
...telephony program known as Dialpad have been frustrated by sluggish or unusable connections. The problem lies with the HASCS filtering software. It recognizes and gives precedence to certain types of traffic--types normally generated by e-mail programs or web browsers--but places restrictions on other traffic, failing to distinguish between a student's use of Dialpad and an outside Napster request for a song stored on a student's computer...
...mean to endorse one type of undergraduate experience over any other. We cannot ignore, however, the fact that grades evaluate just the academic component of our college years. And the ever-agonizing drop from an A-minus to a B-plus or a B is not significant enough to distinguish those who devote the majority of their waking hours to organizations, community service and, dare I say, campus publications from those who immerse themselves in academics. Transcripts should reflect--and reward--the efforts of those who labor over their classes and, as a result, perform exceptionally well. After all, extracurricular...
...goes on to become somewhat personal: "The way in which a dog presents his anus and genitals for inspection indicates the hierarchical position that he aspires to, and other dogs who sniff his genitals are apprised of his sexual condition. From his urine they can undoubtedly distinguish age, build, state of sexual activity and general health, even hours after he's passed...