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This distinction between military and commercial production is itself controversial.
Settler , from 1788, was roughly synonymous with colonist: I say roughly because W.H. Breton, in 1833, distinguishes between settlers the farmers only and colonists the whole of the free inhabitants, though this may be an academic distinction as John Dunmore Lang in the next year remarks that spirit of irreconcilable enmity to standing timber... almost uniformly evinced by all Australian colonists.
There are "too many of them to suggest that the students getting them are really doing exceptional work," a university spokesman told the New York Times . A faculty committee wants to replace the A-plus with an "A with distinction."
This seems to me a wholly irrational distinction to make.
The Helms/Shays argument (for a distinction between ideology and competence) is analytically more sophisticated but viscerally less compelling.