Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...siblings. Look at Leonardo da Vinci, Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin. But there is a price for fame and glory. "Onlies" are associated with a host of irksome psychological traits -- among them impaired social skills and a nagging need for attention. Now it seems they may also suffer from a distinct physical handicap: higher blood pressure...
Mecca J. Nelson '92 past president of the BSA, said groups such as the BSA, African American Cultural Center, Association of Black Radcliffe Women, Black Businessperson's Association, Black Cast, Expressions, Kuumba Singers, Diaspora and Onyx are "all very distinct groups pursuing the same thing...
Marjorie Cohn, acting director of the adjoining Fogg Art Museum, says that while Werner Otto Hall, whose surface is made of limestone and metal panels, has a distinct character from the neighboring Fogg Museum and Carpenter Center, its presence is not too strong...
...formal research. In the past decade it has interviewed scores of incarcerated sexual killers, serial rapists, sexual sadists and child molesters, analyzing and classifying their behavior so that future cases might be cracked more swiftly. Such research has led Lanning to conclude, for instance, that there are two distinct categories (and seven subtypes) of child molesters. "About 90% are what we call situational molesters," he says. "They have no real sexual preference for children and have relatively few victims apiece. They may turn to a youngster because an adult woman isn't available." The remaining 10%, he says, have...
Residents interviewed from four houses with widely-perceived stereotypes say that non-ordered choice has already started to diffuse their houses' distinct character...