Word: distinguishing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sshhh!" just didn't work. The bugs quieted down for a second or two, slithered away, but kept coming back. They're social creatures that can't distinguish between the library and the dining hall. It would take a good deal more to annihilate them. This meant...
While competition among the groups for singers isn't intense, some of the new groups are eager to distinguish themselves from their older peers. Several, including McLane's Singing Rats who started out as a band of Christmas carollers, bill themselves...
Speed and power are what distinguish supercomputers from their humbler cousins. In the early days of the industry, speed was measured in thousands of FLOPS, an acronym for floating-point operations per second, in which the decimal point is moved in very large and small numbers. Today's largest machines are measured in gigaFLOPS, or billions of operations a second. Tomorrow's will be measured in teraFLOPS, trillions of operations a second. A single supercomputer going at teraFLOPS speed will have the power of 10 million personal computers working at full throttle...
...Vice President apparently tried to nudge Dole from the race. He declined his rival's challenge to debate him in Illinois with a telegram that said the time had come to "look ahead to the issues which distinguish us from the Democrats...
Harvard students did not distinguish themselves from other Cambridge residents. According to Thomas M. Smith, warden at Larsen Hall, the breakdown between Democratic and Republican voters among Harvard students was similar to the ratio of other Cambridge residents--overwhelmingly Democratic. "The whole metropolitan Boston area is very liberal. Students just follow trends," he said...