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When properly integrated into a student’s education, externships can provide the competitive edge on college application essays and at campus or alumni interviews, which admissions committees increasingly use to distinguish twenty-first century leaders from the competing hordes of top-scoring test-takers.
Until a short while ago, I could certainly distinguish a computer from a human opponent.
The American political system, at least, appears incapable of setting out the central fiscal policy issues in ways that give voters a chance to make informed judgments and distinguish between candidates-even between candidates whose programs are serious and those whose programs are mathematically impossible jokes.
But homo economicus was never intended to be used for forecasting; its real purpose is to make it easier to distinguish between market failures and mental failures.
Confusion about what cure to prescribe is caused in part by the fact that different medicines are suited for different problems, whereas much of the policy debate fails to distinguish among them adequately.
The Sino-American competition involves two significant realities that distinguish it from the Cold War: neither party is excessively ideological in its orientation; and both parties recognize that they really need mutual accommodation.
These shared values distinguish the Japan-India relationship from Japan’s relationship with China.
So how can the Commission distinguish between cases?
The fundamental feature that must distinguish the left and the right is not their respective views on the economy, but rather their stances regarding redistribution.
So we must distinguish between long-term and immediate action.
Just as we have learned to distinguish between governments as shareholders and as regulators – which must be done carefully, because the actions of one do not necessarily coincide with the interests of the other – today we must distinguish between governments as borrowers and as financial regulators.
The fundamental analytical error then – as it still is today – was a failure to distinguish between alternative sources of disinflation.
In theory, strict in-depth monitoring could distinguish genuinely prudent countercyclical responses from profligacy.
Equally important, researchers must do a better job explaining what scientific “certainty” means, helping the public and policymakers to distinguish between proven hypotheses and unverified theories.
But all of this presumed that financial markets would not distinguish between a default and a Griesafault.
How can we distinguish between paternalism and our duty to protect people from companies with incomprehensible privacy statements?
As the world economy generates stronger headwinds in the years ahead, it will become easier to distinguish countries that have truly strengthened their economic and political fundamentals from those that have coasted on false narratives and the tenuous strength of fickle investor sentiment.
Consumption became primarily an individual phenomenon through which people could distinguish themselves.
In order to design effective remedies, it is useful to distinguish among three types of failures that impede financial-market functioning.
In preparing DSM IV, we decided to add a new category describing a milder (and therefore much more difficult to define and distinguish) form of autism, called Asperger's Disorder.
Second, whereas democracy and market capitalism appeared as clear – if more fragile than expected – winners in 1989, it is difficult in 2009, with the spread of the global crisis, to distinguish winners from losers.
In particular, Rouhani and Raisi attempted to distinguish themselves by their very different interpretations of the nuclear agreement’s domestic economic impact.
It fails to distinguish between Hamas, Hezbollah, al Qaeda or the Sunni insurrection and the Mahdi militia in Iraq.
The third key feature of the election was the emergence of a centrist constituency seeking to distinguish – indeed, separate – itself from the right.
We in Germany need to distinguish one from the other.
Among the features that distinguish the US from “the dominant great powers of the past,” according to the distinguished British strategist Lawrence Freedman, is that “American power is based on alliances rather than colonies.”
Some predict that Congress will move further to the left economically in order to distinguish itself from the BJP, and argue that this would be counterproductive, given that voters have seemingly rejected socialist policies.
Its direct ties to US President Barack Obama, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and European leaders would distinguish it from existing arrangements.
It is extremely difficult to estimate capital flight, both because the data are insufficient and because it is tough to distinguish capital flight from normal diversification.
And the Internet, having swamped the quality press, feeds and reinforces those prejudices, making it more difficult to distinguish the truth from lies.
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