Word: distinguished
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Connoisseurship apparently knows no limits. Many people who used to ask for whiskey by the brand now do the same with sparkling water. Some may even distinguish among flavors, but not if ice cubes and lime are used. Differences are hard to spot, even when the waters are downed neat, but they do exist, as the chart indicates. Brands of club soda and carbonated mineral water are ranked by preference and rated as follows: four bottles, excellent; three, very good; two, good; one, fair; zero, must suit tastes other than mine...
...roar [of accusation] I now heard, I thought I could distinguish different tones--of the gullible, of those who hated the abstraction I represented, of those who knew some history and would never forgive the foreign powers for their part in it, but also of some who were too shrewd and wise to have been taken in by the charade of the day, and--oh, yes, I could hear them--of those who loved me. They all pronounced the same word...
...open meeting, as it has in the last several years, in which the public can voice its concerns. It decided not necessarily to take a stand on complete divestment by the end of the year. But it did decide to help the Corporation define "direct involvement," which would distinguish those companies supplying rare goods to South Africa from those only paying taxes or selling readily attainable products. This definition would enable Harvard to remain invested in companies being business in the apartheid state as long as those companies are not applying rare goods. Harvard could then claim that companies...
...often hard to distinguish between technique and superstition in sports. Harvard men's tennis singles whiz William Stanley '87 includes his penchant for bouncing the ball four times before each serve in the category of technique, specifically rhythm...
While individual organizations did their best to convince members of the platform committee to include planks on their concerns, party leaders emphasized the need to distinguish the 1985 platform from past party statements...