Word: clustering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clinton had always been favored to win the cluster of Southern and Border State primaries in early March, since that was his home region. In Florida he showed a harsh streak in his character, assailing Tsongas most unfairly -- but effectively -- for supposedly planning to cut Social Security benefits...
...Winslow group comprises a cluster of small homes situated around a child-care center, recreation area and common dining hall. Residents own their individual housing units, ranging in price from $55,700 for a studio to $160,800 for a four-bedroom duplex, each equipped with kitchen and bath. But everything else is communal. Residents try to eat dinner together in the dining hall five nights a week and brunch on Sundays. Child-care duty rotates among the residents, with several retired townspeople acting as part-time grandparents...
...seat. The secessionist groups range in size from the 50 million citizens of Ukraine to 30,000 Ainu, descendants of the aboriginal inhabitants of northern Japan. They demand "exclusive possession" of two or three small islands in the southern Kuriles -- also claimed by Moscow and Tokyo -- where they can cluster and preserve their culture...
...know why. My hosts during my pre-frosh visit to MIT belonged to a fraternity that bragged about its basement computer cluster. "Four VAX stations! Yes!" People referred to academic departments by their numbers not their names. "What's your major?" Three." "Really? I'm six. and meet Fred here...
...WILLIAM REID WAS NEW TO Oak Ridge, Tenn., and disturbed by what he was seeing. Soon after he joined the staff of Methodist Medical Center in early 1991, he was treating four patients with kidney cancers, an unusually large number for one small area, and a cluster of other people who appeared to have weakened ability to ward off infections. Reid suspected that something in the local environment was attacking the residents' immune systems...