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  • In the years to come, the youngsters who remain in South Korea's orphanages will discover they are not accepted by a society that places great stress on family background.

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  • Given Suhail Khan's family background, it is hardly surprising that he, too, has spent a considerable amount of time associating with the sorts of organizations favored by his parents.

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  • He said he was not religious, but added that "maybe that's just more a matter of my family background than that there's any fundamental difficulty about reconciling the two".

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  • Eric Hanushek, an economist at the University of Rochester, reviewed almost 400 studies of student achievement and found that, after controlling for family background, there is no consistent link between student performance and school resources.

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  • But a vocal minority was impressed by Chen's seemingly sincere efforts to win justice for his relatives, his reluctance to hurt the Alexanders and his bleak dysfunctional family background (his mother apparently didn't know who his father was).

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  • While one of the main findings of the survey indicated that nine out of ten of these young people had had a warm and loving family background, it also pointed to "significant" minorities who had suffered serious abuse or neglect at home.

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  • The release of the photograph, along with details of his appearance and scant possessions at the time of his discovery, was part of an effort by German authorities to unravel the mysterious identity and family background of a young man who spoke English and a little German.

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  • The release of the photograph, along with details of his appearance and scant possessions at the time of his discovery, is part of an effort by German authorities to unravel the mysterious identity of the boy who speaks English and a little German and what is his family background.

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  • Although the writer-director incidentally lets slip a glimpse of her own movie-family background, as when Nora emerges from a revival house declaring that Humphrey Bogart reminds her of her father, even this majestic backstory remains merely a wink: both Nora Wilder and Zoe Cassavetes labor under the burden of the unexamined life.

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  • Among many other potential effects we examined family socioeconomic background, intelligence as measured by the Graduate Management Admissions Test, emotional intelligence, participation rate in athletics and other activities, whether people started working a part-time job early in life, and military service, if any.

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  • The study also looked at variables associated with the various outcomes, relevant to questions 1 through 4, concerning the student background in terms of family and socio-economic background.

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  • "My mission is not about supporting or opposing the war, it's about supporting the troops, " says Radzyminski, whose own family has a military background.

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  • The director-general of Al Jazeera, Sheikh Ahmed bin Jassim al-Thani, is a member of the country's royal family and has no background in journalism.

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  • Lunt drew on his family's Scandinavian background in designing the house.

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  • On the Web, sitting at home, on a flowered couch, family pictures in the background, talking about having a conversation - all very soft and friendly.

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  • They were grouped at birth according to whether there was a family history of allergies, if they had a pet, if their parents smoked and their family's socioeconomic background.

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  • Instead of telling people about yourself, including your background, family, hobbies, vision, values and your preferred way of working, new leaders can leave breadcrumbs so people can find out about them.

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