Word: distinguishing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...True story; Boy Scouts' honor.) The only problem is that the issue is from that week, and your section leader has just finished it himself. Hello, Ad Board; hello, page 38: "In preparation of all papers and other work submitted to most course requirements, students should to careful to distinguish between ideas which are their own and those which have been derived from other sources...
...Paralleling this "real-life" romance are Camacho's soap operas. Dwarfish but with a melodious voice that has listeners imagining a movie idol, Camacho spends all his waking hours writing, directing and acting in his creations. He considers them works of genius, but eventually he can no longer distinguish between fact and fiction. Real names creep into his serials, and characters from one story appear in the plots of others. This madness of art stands in pathetic contrast to the highly disciplined complexity of the novel. To Mario, who edits news bulletins at the radio station and writes arty...
...Lebanon, though this did not have any effect on the Israeli government. But by failing to state its position forcefully, the Administration appeared to the Arab states to be a silent partner in the attack or at the very least an overly indulgent ally. Until the U.S. can distinguish openly between American policy and Israeli policy, and rein in some of the more expansionist tendencies of the Begin government, it cannot make real headway in improving its relations with the Arab world...
...were on, I had no expectation of surviving them." Wilkinson discovers that people who have been arrested do not always behave politely. One of his perpetrators sticks a match through the grille in the police car and tries to set Wilkinson's hair on fire. He learns to distinguish the different varieties of drunken drivers: "Some drove at moderate speeds, carefully and with concentration, except on the wrong side of the road. Some drove at a crawl, although I believe they thought they were actually going fast. Others drove hell for leather, and all over the place...
...around the year 1851, a Cincinnati wharf hand painted black crosses on boxes of Procter & Gamble candles so that illiterate workers could distinguish them. In time the cross became a star. Then a dozen more stars were added to signify the original 13 colonies, as well as a quarter moon with a human face, a popular image of the time. By 1882 the unusual logo had become Procter & Gamble's trademark...