Word: distinguishing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...throwing money at them. She responds -- how else? -- with statistics. According to the C.D.F., for every dollar spent on the nutrition programs for women, infants and children, three are saved by avoiding more expensive hospital care for underweight and malnourished children. Says Edelman: "People ought to be able to distinguish between throwing money at problems and investing in success...
...contras have attacked targets ranging from government cooperative farms to rural stores and power pylons. But as in the past, they have hurt their cause by failing to distinguish between civilian and military targets. There were recent reports of contras burning down a small community's church- sponsored health clinic. Notes a State Department official: "As the degree of fighting increases, the number of human-rights-violations stories increases too." The contras inside Nicaragua are being supplied by clandestine airdrops, a dangerous technique. But if the resupply holds up and the money continues to flow, the contras are expected...
...earth," Samuel Adams intoned in 1776, those seeking freedom "direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum." From the beginnings of American history, no would-be immigrants have had greater claim on the national conscience than those seeking shelter from repression. But how to distinguish legitimate refugees from the mass of aliens who come to the U.S. merely in search of work or a change of life? The U.S. Supreme Court gave an answer last week that should smooth the path, at least slightly, for thousands fleeing death squads, invading armies and one- party states...
...council, though, is justifiably disturbed by the parade of highly regarded teachers who have left Harvard junior posts to distinguish themselves as full professors at other schools. This trend has motivated Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence to make tenuring Harvard's own top young scholars a top priority, and the Faculty recognizes that its future strength may depend on the dean's success. The challenge now is for Harvard to identify outstanding ability--both, faculty members say, in research and teaching--early in a scholarly career...
...appropriate religious bent. But only initiated devotees sport flowing robes and shaved heads, only those who actually live in the temple. Street clothes, a job at K-mart, and other drably normal characteristics are no impediment to being a full blown Vaishnava. It was difficult to distinguish in the crowd active worshippers from the merely hungry or curious...