Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...writer remembers the model search posters well. There was a "tall, slim, decidedly caucasian-looking female," which she believed typified "western standards of beauty." The logo was a simple sketch of a generic women in a dress. She didn't even have distinct facial features, which just goes to show what you see when you are so obviously looking for something more...
...Quebec government declared these people -- the Cree, the Mohawk, the Huron, the Algonquin and others -- distinct nations, and offered them a path to self-government within Quebec's boundaries. But if you think that 20,000 Cree and Inuit are going to leave Quebec and take two-thirds of its territory...
...novel is set in two distinct time periods, the mid-1930s and the late 1970s, and deals with the events of the Spanish Civil War, Leavitt said...
...analysis of middens is emerging as a distinct scientific specialty. Its handful of practitioners have already published a 472-page tome on the subject (Packrat Middens; University of Arizona) and have considered naming the ! specialty paleonidology, which roughly translated means "study of old nests...
Historically, nationalism -- as distinct from nationality or patriotism -- is a fairly recent development. For a thousand years after the fall of Rome, people's loyalties were to their church, their lords, their rights and duties under the feudal system, to their guilds, eventually to their King...