Word: distinguished
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Fast ForWord games attack this problem by training youngsters to distinguish among phonemes, first at artificially slowed speeds and then at normal rates of speech. The kids click their mouses on animated screen games to identify what they hear. The training is intense--students must sit before computers for 100 min. a day, five days a week for four to eight weeks--because it takes sharply focused attention to rewire a brain. Last fall, Scientific Learning rolled out Fast ForWord II for children who can use additional training. (Parental disclosure: this writer's 12-year-old son Billy made welcome...
...former client of Frankel's. "I would call him back in the afternoon, and he wouldn't have done it." His own fund, the Frankel Fund, attracted a total of three investors and the attention of the Securities and Exchange Commission when Frankel revealed a prodigious inability to distinguish his own money from his clients'. After the SEC got wind of his next venture, Creative Limited Partners, Frankel was barred from trading securities (presuming he could pull the trigger) on behalf of investors...
Above the trademark Starbucks awning lay faded white letters that one can barely distinguish. "Carriage House" is visible through the red brick, and two other names run up the angle of the roof to its apex. Behind the building, according to Middlesex County Court records, lies an ancient burial ground...
Conceding its own limitations, the Ad Board relies on the reports of disciplinary subcommittees in complicated cases. But whereas the Ad Board can conceivably distinguish itself from a court of law if it does not engage in fact-finding, a disciplinary subcommittee cannot. Subcommittees, like courts of law, interview the accused and accuser, examine witnesses and summarize their findings in a written report. No matter how hard the administration attempts to avoid using the language of the law, it is ultimately a semantic distortion to refer to such investigative disciplinary subcommittees--implicitly extensions of the Ad Board--as "educational" bodies...
...hearing isn't good.' But if your taste and smell decline, you blame the food," says Susan Schiffman, a researcher at Duke University Medical Center. Many people also believe, erroneously, that flavor is perceived through taste alone; in fact, smell supplies all the nuances of flavor, enabling us to distinguish, say, one fruit from another. Smell is more fragile than taste, and thus loss of the sense of smell is the more likely culprit when flavor perception wanes...