Word: distinguished
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...Endangered Species (CITES), ratified by the U.S. and 66 other nations (but not Mexico), has not helped much in reducing the depredations. Though the treaty's aim was to regulate the trade in rare and protected species, few signatory nations have customs officers with sufficient botanical knowledge to distinguish saguaro from sassafras. One solution would be stronger enforcement of existing laws that prohibit removal, transportation and sale of imperiled plants. But conservationists face a prickly task in persuading lawmakers to vote funds to save the cactus, which cannot compare in political sex appeal with such threatened creatures...
...Harvard as the Law School, and its graduates are accorded the esteem that only truly singular achievment can surpass. The show should be kept in perspective for what it is, a group of people getting together to have a good time. But a narcissistic effort of an elite to distinguish itself should be perceived also...
Like most of the guerrillas, 46% of the population belongs to the Ovambo tribe. In addition, most of Namibia's 1 million inhabitants are clustered within 20 miles of the long Angolan border. Thus it is exceedingly difficult for South African troops to distinguish enemy guerrillas from the local populace. Yet on paper, the South Africans seem to have the war under control. Their claimed "kill ratio" over the past two years: a phenomenal 3,343 SWAPO dead compared with 72 South Africans. Such lopsided figures are vigorously disputed by SWAPO...
...pretty students arrive in the Old World, blond by belief and upbringing if not always by hair color, innocent of French and of much else, and invariably, according to the agents who must take care of them, requiring advice about apartments, gynecologists and boyfriends. They learn to distinguish the Seychelles from the Maldives, and they learn about vacation houses in Marrakesh. They learn to eat Thanksgiving turkey stuffed with foie gras, and then, when the gloss they have acquired begins to shine through the lens of a Hasselblad, they fly back to New York, perhaps by now not wearing blue...
Getting both the professor and the class to see you as you'd like them to is hard. You want to impress the professor with the clarity of your perception, which means you agree with him. But you need to distinguish yourself to the class, which means you don't. Professors in my experience get very nervous when you steal their students. But students get really snotty when they realize you're a lapdog...