Word: subset
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Wolfe is currently researching college life for his latest book, scheduled for publication in 2002. Using the "American university" as his subject, Wolfe hopes to capture an interesting subset of the country's culture...
...Networking is intimidating for some women," says Gretchen A. Hoff '00, last year's director of the Women's Leadership Network, a subset of the project. "Because Harvard has been a male-dominated institution for so long and so many alumni are male, I think it is important for women to have an 'old girls club...
...probably best-known on campus for his artistic talent. He has been president of Kuumba and the director and musical arranger of Brothers of Kuumba (an all-male subset of the singing group), served as musician's coordinator for the award-winning original musical "Songs We Can't Sing," and founded the Boston Black Art's Festival, now its second year, which brings together a wide range of local and national artists and academics to celebrate the black artistic tradition...
...approval numbers is a band of perhaps 25 percent of Americans who firmly believe Clinton is a career criminal who should have been impeached and removed long ago. But when the New York Times went looking for this steel-jawed minority, it also found Clinton?s worst fear: a subset of those job-approval groupies that nevertheless finds the scandal -- and the President himself -- a wearisome embarrassment and wants him to resign. They may never see that day. But come February, a combination of the the virulent and the merely nauseated could provide Republicans with the coalition they?ve been...
...dilemma is even thornier because a whole subset of American companies--an extremely large subset--remains blissfully unaffected by what is happening overseas. Like Feldenkreis' Supreme International, such companies are driven almost entirely by domestic sales. Privately owned EMP Manufacturing, a maker of screws, bolts and other fasteners in Chesterfield Township, Mich., about 25 miles north of Detroit, does $4 million in sales a year, mostly to the automotive industry. EMP is basking in several years of record-breaking sales. "I don't think it's affected the Big Three at all," says general manager Steve Novak, who notes that...