The bill seeks to allow employers to take on candidates who have a "protective characteristic" in preference over someone else as long as they have the same qualifications.

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Plate tectonics, the formation of faults and the moving of the continental crust over a molten interior, is a characteristic unique to Earth and it meant that minerals evolved far beyond those on any other planet in the Solar System.

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Finally, a gold standard produces trust in the dollar because gold has the unique characteristic of maintaining its buying power over time.

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Over the past few years, Grove has applied his characteristic intensity and razor-sharp intellect to exploring why progress in finding treatments for neurological diseases, such as Parkinson's, has been agonizingly slow.

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These enabled them to cross-refer their observations on 5 January 2000 to earlier observations and to evaluate a characteristic pattern of illness as it had evolved over a period of several months.

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The size characteristic only defines about 90 percent of the average performance over the past 3 years.

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But as it has expanded to host over 1, 000 stores in 44 countries across Europe and Asia, that distinctive characteristic has been compromised, creating an identity crisis.

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It is an interesting triple "coincidence, " which probably evolved over time, that our eyes are most sensitive to yellow-green light, which happens to be the characteristic color of sunlight as well as the color that can most easily be transmitted through the Earth's atmosphere.

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