Word: distinguisher
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Under the new curriculum, freshmen will again be laying out four-year grids showing what to do in which term to achieve everything they must do—or feel they must do in order to distinguish themselves. Advising will be about filling slots, not expanding the mind. No one will want to take a course unless it accomplishes something...
...tyke is processing every change in the shape and rhythm of your mouth and face. Researchers, led by Whitney Weikum at the University of British Columbia, found that infants under 8 months old may rely on such visual cues to learn language, even using variations in facial expressions to distinguish one language from another...
...TIME:Your book is subtitled, "Dispatches From America's Religious Battlefields." Yet in your introduction you refer to the Bible riots of the 1840s that killed 13 people in Philadelphia. Should we distinguish between that kind of violence and contemporary abortion clinic killings, which you also mention...
...typically used. People with CORIs cannot ascertain the accuracy of their records, and employers use them as an indiscriminate way to weed out applicants; they order CORIs for all job applicants and dismiss applicants if they have a CORI, often without bothering to determine what the charges were or distinguish between guilty and innocent, convicted or released. All this ignorance and misunderstanding violate the implicit trust employers are granted when the government allows them to see this sensitive information.CORIs are necessary and relevant, but not to the degree at which they are currently abused. A 2003 University of Chicago study...
...which she denies. But she remains easily the most popular politician in Pakistan and is therefore an essential participant in any future setup that hopes to call itself democratic. The third player is of course Musharraf, well intentioned but increasingly ill advised. He has developed an alarming inability to distinguish between his individual interests and those of the state...