Sentences with phrase «of affinity groups»

The industry is changing because of affinity groups and the consolidation of the relocation business, so when business is directed into our system, it costs us more money.

Plymouth Rock also offers discounts if you're a member of one of our affinity groups.

Are you part of one of our affinity groups (AARP, Grandparent.com)?

There is the usual range of affinity groups, though the most visible was said to be the women's forum.

Law firms can address this lack of esprit de corps, he believes, through broader encouragement of affinity groups — not just built around common denominators such as race, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation but around any number of shared interests: books, travel, music.

Second, we are also really proud of our affinity groups that support our diverse junior associates.

There's a «comprehensive» range of affinity groups on offer — six in total, covering women, different ethnicities, LGBT and parents — which «help bring diverse attorneys» struggles into focus.»

Are you part of one of our affinity groups (AARP, Grandparent.com)?

The activities and goals of affinity groups are as diverse as their names.

Some of the affinity groups sponsored by Novartis go beyond racial, gender, and sexual orientation issues.

In my research, I've found that one kind of affinity group — inhabited by video gamers — offers particularly important lessons for K - 12 education, suggesting how we might better organize our work around students» interests and passions (Gee, 2011).

You can participate in our Home & School Council (HSC) meetings, join committees, be part of an affinity group or attend our coffee chats.

FROSCH Group Travel is a team of experienced operators trained in the handling of a wide variety of domestic and international group programs, including the custom design of all types of affinity group travel programs, spiritual and faith based missions, student group immersion and sports team travel.

Did you know being a member of an affinity group could help you save money on car insurance?

«If customers are members of an affinity group, salespeople may have to pay a referral fee even though they may already have established a relationship with those customers,» he says.

Not exact matches

She's a founding member of Cassels» diversity and inclusion committee and chair of the firm's black affinity group; a content director for the diversity and inclusion committee of the American Bar Association; and a member of two committees of the Black Female Lawyers Network.

And we're building a feature called Groups, which allows VCs, angel groups, incubators and other affinity groups to have their own portion of SeedIGroups, which allows VCs, angel groups, incubators and other affinity groups to have their own portion of SeedIgroups, incubators and other affinity groups to have their own portion of SeedIgroups to have their own portion of SeedInvest.

Many of the government's largest sting operations come from busting up cross-state Ponzi schemes, «affinity» investment scams (which prey on the elderly or on particular ethnic or religious groups), and penny - stock boiler rooms, like the infamous Stratton Oakmont and Sterling Foster.

But she stresses that study groups show that investors have an affinity for advisers of a similar gender or ethnic background — those «who «get them» and share common experiences,» she says.

It is a holistic approach that can be led with product functionality (think Apple), customer service (think Nordstrom), creating an affinity group or lifestyle association (think Harley - Davidson), creating an experience (think Disney theme parks) or even by creating a bridge to the customer with ancillary products, services, content or experiences that are important to the customer (think food companies with time - saving recipes), depending on what is of most importance to customers.

Duarte pointed to her group's efforts to get Facebook to crack down on affinity targeting in ads, for example, routing ads related to homebuying away from minority groups — a social media ad version of the unfair mortgage and real estate industry practices that made homebuying for African Americans difficult for much of the 20th century.

Furthermore, the company believes that inclusiveness is equally important to diversity and strives to exercise these beliefs in its employment practices by maintaining resource and affinity groups, such as Awesome Women in Engineering (AWE), Women at Yelp, Parents of Yelp, Ethnic Diversity Group, Veterans at Yelp, and OUTburst, a group for LGBTQQIA individGroup, Veterans at Yelp, and OUTburst, a group for LGBTQQIA individgroup for LGBTQQIA individuals.

Thus Lifton indicates that one characteristic distinguishing the rap groups from traditional therapy was «that of affinity, the coming together of people who share a particular... historical and personal experience, along with a basic perspective on that experience, in order to make some sense of it.»

But the effort to raise funds for a new library, and the way it was done, actually created community out of these «affinity groups.»

For my part, I really thought that I had been clear from the start that I had no affinity for the denomination this group was a part of (or for any denomination for that matter as I had given up on that many years before).

«We have affinity for program houses for a wide variety of groups, including Russian House, Buddhist House, and Earth House.

Critics charge that Weber's arguments go beyond notions of elective affinity in emphasizing the role of status groups as carriers of new ideas, but the intervening mechanisms relating particular ideas to particular status groups still leave much to be explained.

A turbulent ant - hill of separate elements whose most evident characteristic, excepting certain limited cases of deep affinity (married couples, families, the team, the mother country) seems to be one of mutual repulsion, whether between individuals or groups.

Without your proof, we can only assume that you, and groups with which you have affinity in addressing moral issues, whether those groups be churches, people with the same interpretation of the Bible, governments (a theocracy, for instance), also do so subjectively.

In the sharing of Christian experience and mutual reinforcement in the faith the idea has affinities with the Methodist class meetings of an earlier day; and when the cell principle is integrated sufficiently with the rest of life, it reminds one of those early Christian groups who «day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes,... partook of food with glad and generous hearts, praising God and having favor with all the people.»

Certainly there are similarities, affinities, and lines of mutual historical and intellectual influence which justify grouping these disparate schools as one overall «tradition» of process philosophy.

Racial intermixtures have produced some very white - skinned Negroes with blue eyes and fair hair, yet the product of such a union remains a Negro.5 Race as the term is commonly used designates very nearly what the Germans call Volk — a group sharing a common cultural tradition, whether of achievement or servitude, with some measure of national, geographical, and biological affinity.

We want to make sure we are reaching out beyond any one affinity group to bring a broad coalition of progressives together.

«We compiled information from all the rodent species present at more than hundred fossil sites of Iberian Peninsula and the South of France, which allow us to statistically evaluate how this rodent communities were grouped based on their ecological affinities.

«With the goal of maintaining their status in some affinity group, people are very resourceful when it comes to making arguments.

More than 2,500 staff members — out of 18,000 total — participate in affinity groups at Amgen, which include the Amgen Asian Association, Amgen Black Employees Network, Amgen DisAbled Employees Network, Amgen Latin Employees Network, Amgen Middle Eastern Employees Network, Amgen Network for Gay and Lesbian Employees, and Amgen Women's Interactive Network.

Chapters for any existing affinity group can be formed at any of the company's facilities throughout the United States, provided that there are enough people to participate in them.

At biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, affinity groups have been integrated into the business fabric of many companies.

In addition to groups that come together because of racial, ethnic background, and gender connections, affinity groups also bring together individuals based on country of origin, religion, physical disabilities, military service, age, sexual orientation, and many other commonalities.

Affinity groups are also a new trend among alumni associations, according to Julie Harris who acts as liaison between about seven newly established affinity groups and the alumni association of Northern Illinois University (NIU).

In addition to providing activities of interest to their members, company - sponsored affinity groups come together with company management to find ways to recruit new employees and market products.

Inc., a company that was ranked number 18 in the top 50 companies for diversity by the editors of Diversity Inc., has five employee - led affinity groups: the Black Employee Network, the Merck Hispanic Organization, the Asian Pacific Network, the Gay Lesbian Employee Association Network, and the Merck Women's Network.

«The affinity groups evolved from social networks to become part of our companywide strategy for all employees,» says Walter Hurdle, diversity leader for the Americas.

For example the Women in Engineering (WIE) arm of the IEEE — an association of 380,000 members in areas ranging from aerospace systems to biomedical engineering — sponsors 186 affinity groups worldwide, several of which are student groups based at universities.

At universities, affinity groups serve primarily a social and networking function, providing a source of support and community for participating students and faculty.

For years, scientists have been debating the phylogenetic position of brachiopods and molluscs, as well as their affinities for other animals in the same group, the Lophotrochozoa, comprising segmented worms, clams, oysters, snails, squids, and so on.

Prof. You - Me Kim and her student Dajung Jung at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), in collaboration with Prof. Wonhwa Cho's group at the University of Illinois at Chicago, have identified that the majority of human Src homology 2 (SH2) domains not only bind to proteins, but also interact with membrane lipids with high affinity and specificity.

It is one of the top most viewed articles published online this summer under the Membrane Biology affinity group, according to the editorial offices of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

The PD program consists of a two week orientation, monthly program series, special interest affinity group events and programs, and a year - end summit.

Here we report newly discovered human fossils from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco, and interpret the affinities of the hominins from this site with other archaic and recent human groups.