Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wellesley women divide the riders into two distinct groups: a "Harvard group" of bus riders and an "MIT group." To which group people belong depends on whom you know at each college. But most of the women who got off at the Harvard stop say they just want to catch the T to get into to Boston. They say they really had to know someone to go to a Harvard party, which isn't nescessary at MIT frats...
Under Japan's constituency system, members of the same party often run against each other in the same district. Unable to campaign on different platforms, the candidates stump on their ability to bring special benefits like new roads and factories to their towns. Nisei have a distinct advantage because they inherit the so-called three bans: jiban (constituency), kanban (name or recognition) and kaban (suitcase or campaign chest); they don't have to spend their early careers building these...
...show samples without fatigue the best of Rowlandson's work and includes several of his real masterpieces, notably Vauxhall Gardens, 1784, that charivari of Georgian London in pursuit of pleasure: fops, soldiers, beggars, rowdies, beauties, literary celebrities, the high and the low jostling and quizzing one another, each fresh, distinct and full of life...
...classic structure, Oldsmobile designed, built and marketed autos that were distinct from the other car divisions' products. Now Oldsmobile no longer builds its own cars and contributes little to the design and engineering. For all practical purposes, Oldsmobile is only a marketing division whose purpose is to sell cars made by BOC. "The responsibility for manufacturing a car is about as far from the people who sell it as you can possibly get," says Manhattan auto analyst Maryann Keller. "One of the most poignant things lost in the reorganization was the loyalty of individuals to brands. People missed being part...
Minority groups, with few exceptions, have not made the legacy policy a leading item on their agendas. Perhaps some minority activists fear that questioning preferential treatment for legacies would cast doubt upon affirmative action admissions. But the issues are conceptually distinct. Preference to minority groups counterbalances years of discrimination and prejudice, while preference to legacies reinforces the all-white boys' club tradition...