Word: distinguish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...type is easy to identify. Fast-talking and usually well dressed, pre-presidential candidates distinguish themselves on campus by their vast store of past and current political knowledge. They spend a lot of time at the Institute of Politics shepherding around national and world leaders. They know what the polls are predicting a year half before the election, and they know what spin to put on every issue, what sound bite to use in every situation...
...council would also give itself the legitimacy it so desperately requires. As it stands now, students do not vote in council elections precisely because representatives do not "represent" but merely work towards universally accepted goals. If candidates were to run on a political platform, they would be able to distinguish themselves from their competitors and spark greater voter interest. The unusually packed meeting hall last Sunday night is indicative of student interest on important and relevant political issues. Cutting the size of the council will also help it gain legitimacy, since fewer available seats would increase the election competition...
...human beings use to make judgments about one another. Despite the computer's ability to calculate the trajectories of spacecraft or pick the next move in a chess game, the machines have until now been flummoxed by crude recognition tasks that even a baby can perform, often failing to distinguish between a beach ball and a cabbage, to say nothing of picking out a familiar face in a photo album filled with strangers. Such a pattern-recognition talent, says Salk Institute neuroscientist Terrence Sejnowski, in whose lab the work was done: "is a survival skill humans probably had even before...
...attacked, but they fundamental act of rape-forcing someone to have sex against their will-remains the same and should be punished severely. Rape is not a lesser crime if it is committed by a friends or acquaintance or if the person raped has been drinking. To attempt to distinguish degrees of punishment according to the context surrounding the rape diminishes the idea that rape itself, no matter the context, is a physically and psychologically destructive act committed against an individual...
...study by Harvard Medical School (HMS) researchers is shedding light on how the olfactory system, which regulates the sense of smell, processes information with only 1,000 types of receptors to distinguish countless smells...