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More and more of these organizations are serving social, rather than political or cultural functions. By emphasizing the social aspects of minority life, they encourage their members to cluster together excessively, instead of taking advantage of the diversity around them...
...addictive tendencies cluster in some people is still a mystery. Researchers know that some sufferers have an inherited physical susceptibility $ to alcoholism and perhaps to abuse of other substances as well. There may also be a psychological vulnerability. Experts dismiss the popular idea that there is a set of personality traits, say, low self-esteem and a streak of perfectionism, that puts people on the path to dependency. Explains Dr. Sheila Blume, director of a treatment program at South Oaks Hospital in Amityville, N.Y.: "There is no evidence of a single addictive personality type. You cannot go to a class...
...People cluster in the darkened hallways--a public defender tries to get a pair of defendants to admit, an assistant D.A. confers with a prosecution witness. Speaking quickly, in legal jargon, they're making deals. They look and sound like fast-talking hustlers in a David Mamet play. But there's a difference. Many of the key players are women...
...other hand, there will be more business for the cluster of gift shops in Dock Square that sell things like scented candles and T shirts. Diane Frazier, owner of Mountain Tops, which offers BUSH COUNTRY sweat shirts for $16.99, says, "He's great for business. But I don't want to do anything tacky. He's the President...
...teaches 500 employees basic reading, writing and arithmetic in its gleaming eight-story Institute for Corporate Education in Hartford. Since 1982 the General Motors Truck and Bus Group plant in Flint Township, Mich., has offered its 3,000 workers high school classes and one-on-one tutoring in a cluster of rooms overlooking the shop floor. The center has granted 14 high school diplomas...