Word: distinguishing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whole Northwest, and most especially Washington, is entering a crucial phase, one that will decide whether the region can retain the very elements that distinguish it, in substance and flavor, if not literally in every forest and windswept stretch of coastline. Dixy Lee Ray, herself an increasing source of controversy, is right in the middle of the struggle and delighted to be there. With the subtlety of a Seattle stevedore, she is bulldozing ahead on the key issues. Among them...
...dismayed Trudeau's Liberals, was not simply that the Mounties had operated beyond the law but that they felt free to spy on a legal, democratically constituted political party. "What is happening in this country?" cried anguished New Democratic M.P. Stuart Leggatt. "Th government should try to distinguish be tween subversion and political dissent...
Victory comes from hard work and speed, not to mention many other intangibles--such as desire to win, spirit and luck that distinguish a team from its competitors. These ingredients, which sustained the Radcliffe cross-country team throughout the season, produced a final sweet victory in this year's Ivy League championships held at New Haven Friday...
Anxiously, they sign entrance forms, empty what's in their pockets into lockers and check to make sure no one is wearing blue jeans. Blue jeans are prohibited; once inside, the only way to distinguish prisoners from visitors is that inmates alone are allowed to wear jeans. Again, the warning: bring in nothing on your person. Only a few weeks before, someone entering the prison to tutor inmates--a Harvard student, in fact--accidentally left a joint in his coat. The authorities banned him from ever re-visiting Walpole...
That makes Clem angry. He cites his many years of work helping rehabilitate Cambridge housing stock as evidence of his committment to addressing low-income housing problems. And his initiatives on other liberal issues--gay rights, affirmative action and down-zoning for instance--clearly distinguish him from the other incumbents not backed...