Word: distinguishing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Police sources distinguish between these problems and the reality of a hard working. well run police force "[Accusations of incompetence] are a crock of garbage. Paul did the best possible job he could. He never dodged tough situations. I don't think he had any greater problems than anybody else. just more pressures." Thomas says...
...WELL-MEANING majority of the Crimson fails to distinguish between a lacking reformist "progress" of the Salvadoran rightists and the despairing concessions of the struggling Sandinistas...
...likely to reflect socioeconomic status and school quality than intelligence. The same experts argue that the Achievement Tests are more straightforward and hence less unfair, because they can be studied for like any final. And one other argument--that the Achievement scores will be a more precise way to distinguish among the Harvard applicants who are crowed at the top of the SAT score scale--seems eminently logical. Presumably, it is because of arguments like these that the Admissions Committee hopes to deemphasize the SAT in evaluating students...
...your discussion of what constitutes aggression among nations [Nov. 14], you fail to distinguish between indirect aggression and revolution. Practically all revolutions have some sort of foreign support. I can hear George III screaming about a coup d'état in the American colonies where insurgents were acting as surrogates for the French...
...that a historically significant individual merited a journalistic "second draft" to assess his contributions and character in light of of, contemporary events, opinions and scholarship. In this week's cover story, 20 years after John F. Kennedy's death in Dallas, Senior Writer Lance Morrow tries to distinguish between the 35th President's accomplishments and the en during myths. Observes Morrow: "The past inhabits us and defines us - and of ten haunts us. We need to go back to it, to sift it, in order to know who we are and how we became what...