Word: distinguished
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With half a dozen politicians jockeying for the position of Democratic contender to the throne, each man has to distinguish himself, to keep from blurring with the blather of the bunch. It is no secret that Gary Hart wants to stake out the territory of "thinking man's liberal," the one who carefully examines issues and courageously gives detailed answers, who is not afraid to reject the slogans of the past to create the solutions for the future. He is the only one who at this early stage has published a book, and A New Democracy A Democratic, Vision...
...been a long time since Italy had anything to cheer about of this magnitude. The Azzuri had last won the World Cup in 1938. Since then there had been no victories in war, no diplomatic triumphs, nothing but the frustrations of a small country trying unsuccessfully to distinguish itself on a world scale...
...skip lightly over the Hitler and immediate postwar periods-the country has produced a generation with little or no historical perspective. In the eyes of West German youth who cannot remember the cold war or the Berlin airlift or the Korean War, there is really not much to distinguish between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. As a result, the vital Atlantic Alliance is sometimes questioned or even naively perceived as a fading and largely unnecessary relic...
...anti-Semitism runs so deeply that they distinguish between Russian mathematics and Jewish mathematics," says Melvyn B. Nathanson, dean of the graduate school of Rutgers University in New Jersey and a widely noted authority on Soviet mathematics. What this means, explains the dean, is that Jews have found it increasingly difficult to gain admission to undergraduate and graduate programs in math and earn advanced degrees, as well as finding it "almost impossible" to obtain academic position...
However, the task of directing becomes impracticable unless thematic priorities and emphases, drawn from the script itself, are used to nurture and shape the artistic vision. And it becomes impossible to distinguish theme from device, message from embellishment, or innovation from convention without some awareness of the period, the playwright, or the genre...