Word: distinction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Republican right. As Bush jetted last week from Chicago to San Jose to Miami, pointing with pride to the accomplishments of his first 100 days, he and his aides stressed their "continuity" with Reagan and felt obliged to deny the obvious: embedded in their accomplishments are subtle but distinct breaks with Reagan and the right. Among them...
...artist deserves to be judged on his best work, and the idea that Reni was just a painter of saccharine devotional figures does not stand up. He will never get back on the pedestal he occupied in the 17th and 18th centuries, alongside Raphael. But there was a distinct grandeur in Reni, which his sometimes irksome professional smoothness served, and it is still perceptible today...
...Wolff instigated a member of the Law School faculty to write a letter on official Law School stationery. His group instigated the letter written by Professor [of Law Derrick A.] Bell, and gave it the distinct appearance of writing it as an officially sanctioned letter. I want to know why Wolff got away with that...
...Wolff instigated a member of the LawSchool faculty to write a letter on official LawSchool stationery," Egan said. "His groupinstigated the letter written by Professor Belland gave it the distinct appearance of writing itas an officially sanctioned letter. I want to knowwhy Wolff got away with that...
Bozzotto, who will be negotiating a contract with Harvard in mid-May for this union of hotel and restaurant workers, admits that every work force has a distinct personality that must be considered when organizing workers. But he also says that "workers are the same wherever they...