Word: distinguished
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...necessary to be a board chairman to spiff up in a tux, however. "The tuxedo is a great equalizer," suggests Chicago Fund Raiser Sugar Rautbord. "It's hard to distinguish between the head waiter and a CEO." Bill Blass, whose traditional tux designs for After Six are among the industry's best sellers, brings the whole matter down to earth and into perspective: "Ultimately, it all stems back to women. It's the gal who wants to dress up, and the fellow has to go along." That's one reason Blass has been a success for so long; he knows...
Ordinary microscopes provide sharp images of most bacteria but cannot distinguish anything smaller than about eight-millionths of an inch -- the tiniest bacteria, for example -- because the wavelength of visible light, which is in the hundred-thousandth of an inch range, is too long. Ruska found that a magnetic coil could focus electrons, which have a wavelength that is roughly 100,000 times shorter. Substituting magnets for lenses and electrons for light, he built his first electron microscope. Improved versions, by providing images of viruses and even large molecules, have revolutionized such disparate fields as biology and electronics...
...fair, standards of evidence, standards of punishment, criteria for calling witnesses and cross-examining them must all be explicitly stated in the new committee's charter. Most important there must be a clear procedure for determining which cases it will hear. Establishing an appeals body that will not artificially distinguish between political and "apolitical" cases is all well and good. It will be to no avail, however, if the faculty majority on the committee can refuse to hear cases. Saying, as the University has suggested, that the committee will make such decisions according to an evolving body of common...
...staggered by the illogic of Michael Pakaluk's argument against tax funding for abortion. He fails to distinguish between the undesirable role of the state where it imposes its will in "intensely personal matters," and its beneficial role where it facilitates choice in such matters. His argument begins to unravel when he speciously compares the use of public money to facilitate abortion, with its use to facilitate access to a synagogue or church. The risk of pregnancy is an unavoidable, inherent condition of normal adult female life. The risk of not finding the religious facility of one's choice...
...feature film-making, this year's films--Peggy Sue Got Married, The Fly, Top Gun--are pretty good evidence that Hollywood has just about run out of plots. With almost every storyline done two or three times over, directors have to find something else--cinematography, special effects, acting--to distinguish their movies from the competition...