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Word: distinguishing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sequels, the three movies that would follow Jedi, are considerably vaguer. Their main theme will be the necessity for moral choices and the wisdom needed to distinguish right from wrong. There was never any doubt in the films already made; in those the lines were sharply drawn, comic-book-style. Luke, who will then be the age Obi-Wan Kenobi is now, some place in his 60s, will reappear, and so will his friends, assuming that the creator decides to carry the epic further. Hamill and the others will get first crack at the roles-if they look old enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: I've Got to Get My life Back Again | 5/23/1983 | See Source »

Another serious deficiency in her article was her failure to distinguish clearly between representations made on behalf of the Harvard Arab Student Society on the one hand and the co-sponsors on the other--the distinctions which Arab Student Society spokespeople made scrupulously, out of an obligates to the organizations and to the public to represent honestly the diversity of views within the coalition of co-sponsors. Since the considerably better subsequent article in The Crimson recognized the existence of this diversity but still got its content wrong, let me reproduce part of the text of our statement read...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rahmun's Speech | 5/4/1983 | See Source »

...away from the hive, anticipate where the food will be placed. Seagulls break open shellfish by dropping them on hard surfaces, flying low when their target is small. At the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center in Atlanta, chimpanzees have been conditioned to communicate through symbols and are able to distinguish between signs that mean food and those that refer to nonedible items. Says Duane Rumbaugh: "Apes have the capacity to use symbols that represent things not present in time and space-the essence of semantics, in human parlance." The chimps also have demonstrated self-awareness. One, while watching itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Birds May Do It, Bees May Do It | 5/2/1983 | See Source »

Students also take a tour of a local Hershey plant and conduct blind taste testing sessions in class to distinguish the differences in various types of chocolate...

Author: By Robert M. Neer, | Title: Tasty Credits | 4/20/1983 | See Source »

...large field, which has at least three other strong contenders in addition to White. "There is a pack mentality that exists in a race like this," he explains, adding. "There are no clear means by which anyone can test the substance of any one candidate. The one way you [distinguish yourself] is by providing the best total package...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: Sheriff Kearney to Face Tough Fight for Mayor | 4/19/1983 | See Source »

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