Groups

Some articles on groups, group:

Formica - "Slave-making" Behavior
... There are three categories In the exsecta and rufa-microgyna groups, virgin queens cannot start colonies on their own, but invade colonies of other groups and by various processes eventually oust the host queen ... In the sanguinea group, colonies are started as above, but then in some species of the group workers go out and raid colonies of other groups for new ... Some species of this group need to do this to survive, for others it is optional ...
Twelve Traditions - Singleness of Purpose
... Fifth Tradition of Alcoholics Anonymous, "Each group has but one primary purpose—to carry its message to the alcoholic who still suffers." Other groups replace the word ... open AA meetings, provided, of course, that the groups themselves are willing ... AA members who are so inclined should be encouraged to band together in groups to deal with sedative and drug problems ...
Historical Race Concepts - Decline of Racial Studies After 1930
... that people could be divided into discrete groups and based on the divisions, there would be severe, tortuous, and often fatal consequence ... Therefore, some argue, human racial groups do not appear to be distinct ethnic groups ...
Nicaraguans - Demographics - Ethnic Groups
... pre-Columbian population consisted of many indigenous groups ... Nicarao people, whom the country is named after, were present along with other groups related by culture and language to the Mayans ... of Nicaragua was inhabited by indigenous peoples who were mostly chibcha related groups that had migrated from South America, primarily present day ...
Russian Mafia
... criminal organization, most of the individual groups, known as Bratva ("brotherhood") or Vorovskoy mir ("thief in law, world"), share similar goals and ... ("thieves-in-law") emerged as leaders of prison groups in gulags (Soviet prison labor camps), and the Thieves' Code became more defined ... In modern times, there are as many as 6,000 different groups, with over 200 of them having a global reach ...

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    Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.
    Salman Rushdie (b. 1947)

    ... until both employers’ and workers’ groups assume responsibility for chastising their own recalcitrant children, they can vainly bay the moon about ‘ignorant’ and ‘unfair’ public criticism. Moreover, their failure to impose voluntarily upon their own groups codes of decency and honor will result in more and more necessity for government control.
    Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)

    Trees appeared in groups and singly, revolving coolly and blandly, displaying the latest fashions. The blue dampness of a ravine. A memory of love, disguised as a meadow. Wispy clouds—the greyhounds of heaven.
    Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    Some of the greatest and most lasting effects of genuine oratory have gone forth from secluded lecture desks into the hearts of quiet groups of students.
    Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)