The multi-divisional company, as it is termed, has distinct needs in managing industrial relations.

The Giants have the 25th pick in the first round and a distinct need for defensive linemen.

And many of the company's products fill distinct needs in a networked world.

"There's a distinct need to bring this vendor situation under control," he said.

I said, feeling a distinct need to change the subject.

Subsumed within the people, it argued, the working class had no needs distinct from those of the population as a whole.

Nearly 90 percent of the surveyed companies have established programs for groups identified as having "distinct needs," all but two of them mandated by government.

But the Yankees sense a distinct need for the outfielder, who turns 30 years old next month.

Needs: universal human needs, as distinct from particular strategies for meeting needs.

This will in any case lead to a distinct need for permanent education, and the continuous training of largely elderly workers.