Word: subset
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...when the lawmakers were finished, they had made history in spite of themselves, adding a new member to a very select American club: Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon and now Bill Clinton. In voting to open a broad impeachment inquiry, the House of Representatives cast Clinton into a tiny subset of American Presidents from which he will never be paroled, even pending good behavior. He became the third Commander in Chief to face the ignominy of an official impeachment investigation--not as bad as Nixon; worse than Johnson, whose impeachment was pure political payback by his cranky congressional opposition. It will...
However, the major problem with this attitude is that it locks individuals into a certain subset of the population. One's identity is automatically assumed as Crimson or Advocate or Republican Club, and all other perspectives or experiences are ignored. People still refer to me as "that U.C. girl," even though my affiliation with the U.C. is only one part of my composite identity...
...easy categorization. He grew up in an integrated middle-class suburb of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., the son of professionals; he went on to Yale and Harvard Law School, worked as a Clinton speechwriter and became an MSNBC pundit. As an adolescent he identified less with other Asians than with "that subset of people... who were educated, affluent: going places." He began, he says, to "imagine myself beyond race." In The Accidental Asian, Liu still distances himself from the identity politics of the multicultural left. He points out the folly in the idea that a shared Asian-American identity can be woven...
Stumbling blocks lie all along the way. Sometimes the clinical trials are badly designed; a new medication may be given in the wrong dosage, or delivered to the wrong subset of patients. And even when everything's done right, chemicals that looked highly promising in laboratory animals often turn out to be dangerous or ineffective. Most experimental compounds never get out of the lab. And for every five drugs that do go into clinical testing, only one is eventually approved...
...headline, which implies a connection between the actions of several non-students with those of the undergraduate Orthodox community, creates an imprecise image of Orthodox Jewish life at Harvard. The undergraduate Orthodox Jewish community comprises a vibrant group of upstanding, creative and open-minded students. It constitutes a valuable subset of the wider Jewish community and is intimately involved in Hillel's activities and broad goals...