Word: distinguishing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weathermakers have to distinguish between storms. Would it make a difference if the weather wasn't named? Would anybody sit at home watching the weather, wishing our loud that somebody would distinguish between all the confusing anonymous hurricanes? Is anyone going to call up the weather service and ask for all the personal background on Tornado Donna from...
Poodies -- A group of four women who play "old-time string band" and Southern Appalachian music. Ruth Rappaport says they distinguish themselves by playing Tex-Mex and Hungarian music, while using rock-a-roll rhythms. They perform once a week along Brattle...
...continent, and aimed to hit the heart of our system," predicts one high-ranking intelligence official. Some experts fear that a retaliatory strike against terrorists abroad could provoke reprisals inside the U.S. Thousands of Iranians and Lebanese have recently settled in the U.S., and there is no way to distinguish the tiny minority who may be potential terrorists from the great majority who are legitimate refugees...
Such difficult questions aside, right tail selection remains tricky because while one can distinguish "good" from "average," it is highly troublesome to extrapolate "excellence" from grades and test scores--a feat elite institutions routinely attempt...
...damage to the study of all writing." Indeed, noted some Cairenes, the rulers were too strict in administering the laws of Islam. "A storm is brewing that augurs disaster," warned a celebrated scribe named Yusuf Idris. But do not despair. As the book of tales declares, Allah "alone can distinguish between the true and the false...