Word: subgroups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remedy these problematic attitudes towards mathematical education in America, Gleason has become involved with the Mathematical Science Education Board, a subgroup of the National Research Council (NRC), a Washington-based organization designed to promote the study of math and science in American schools and industry...
...surprised on another occasion to hear the Soviet leader comment about the invasion of Afghanistan: "It was a mistake." (He was later to call Afghanistan a "bleeding wound," but in public he still justifies the invasion.) In the same year, however, Gorbachev served on a Politburo crisis- management subgroup that sought to justify the Soviet downing of a Korean Air Lines passenger jet by asserting that the plane had been on a spying mission...
...these doubly cursed patients frequently show up in psychiatric hospitals and emergency rooms, they are unlikely to get much help. "These are the troublemakers," says Talbott, "the ones that everyone has given up on." Thanks in part to the easy availability of street drugs and alcohol, this hard-core subgroup is rapidly growing. "Twenty-five years ago you didn't have this problem, especially among the young," he notes...
Within the population of Black students at the College some individuals clearly boast a greater propensity to meet one aim than the other; like those of any other ethnic subgroup, Blacks here have come from a variety of social classes. However, in a number of cases (and I have seen them) the competing pressures that flow from the diversity principle have led to more than a bit of social schizophrenia...
...newcomers are drastically changing the Asian-American mix. The 1980 census showed that Japanese Americans, the largest Asian subgroup since 1910, have dropped to third place (701,000), after Chinese Americans (806,000) and Filipino Americans (775,000). Japanese Americans play almost no role in the current wave of Asian immigration. Within the next 30 years, demographers expect Filipinos to become the largest group of Asian Americans, followed in order by Chinese, Koreans, Vietnamese, Asian Indians and, in sixth place, Japanese...