Word: distinguished
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Calkins says that Fallen Angels’ all-female membership and specialty in contemporary music distinguish it from its competitors...
...University allows books and movies to use its name in the belief that audiences can distinguish between the fictional accounts of Harvard life and the actual experience, according to the Office of the University Provost, which oversees trademark issues...
...their faces," says Moutardier. Others, Jones recalls, reacted to the attacks by being "really very respectful and cooperative." But as time passed, Jones says, "it went back to business as usual," with some passengers flouting the rules and behaving rudely. Attendants traded tips on how to distinguish potential terrorists from passengers with air rage...
...need to demonstrate to themselves that they can cope with the hardships that they do not have to face in their comfortable lives at home. They want to believe that their vacationing does not have the same impact as that of the mass tourists from whom they like to distinguish themselves." This is self-denial as self-indulgence and, to Duffy, quite politically incorrect. From the former British colony of Belize - now a popular ecotourist destination in Central America - Duffy relates stories of scuba-diving and snorkeling visitors who have grabbed onto, or stepped on, fragile corals and otherwise harassed...
...likely to be in less obvious places, and Charles Baird, chairman and founder of the private equity firm North Castle Partners in Greenwich, Conn., believes he has tapped into something big. Baird has invested $800 million in what he calls "healthy living," an industry built around traits that will distinguish the next crop of retirees from earlier generations that just wanted to play a little golf...