Word: subset
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Nevertheless, it may be time to admit that in the case of some subset of the system's children, the American foster family in its current, underfunded state cannot answer their needs. Even Americans appalled by the hard-line rhetoric out of Washington may find themselves supporting further experiments with long-term residential care, whether the word orphanage is attached to them or not. "Steve's" mother gave him up, but she did so only because she was dying of cancer. When he was eight, she sent him to the Bethesda Home, a 50-child establishment on the banks...
...subset of courses where in the nature of the discipline it makes sense for learning to take place in a form of ongoing class meetings rather than have a hiatus period for major projects, meeting in reading period is sensible," Buell says...
...result is that techies in large numbers -- engineers who lost jobs at the superconducting supercollider, doctoral students bored with their computer-science dissertations -- are heading for Wall Street. Says Diller: "The people who study science but are not themselves weirdos -- a small subset, people who can adapt to the real world -- become aware that they can make a lot more money...
...report discussed the value of a fellowship offered at Trinity College--a fellowship that Professor Whitehead had himself won--and suggested that Harvard found one of its own. They also recommended that a 200-person honors college be established as a subset of Harvard...
Before the NCI, research is accepted as definitive, it will have to be validated by repetition. Moreover, the tight focus on pairs of openly homosexual brothers, who are only a subset of the total gay population, leaves many questions about other categories of gay men, lesbians and bisexuals. The NCI researchers concede that their discovery cannot account for all male homosexuality and may be just associated with gayness rather than be a direct cause. But authors of other studies indicating a biological basis for homosexuality saluted it as a major advance...