Surveying a nationally representative group of over 2, 000 people, the study found that 60% of Americans use social media sites and, of those, 66% engage in political or civic activity on the sites.
For the equivalency exam field tests, the state Education Department is trying to select a representative group of schools and students, including schools in rural, urban and suburban areas, as well as students who speak Spanish as their first language.
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The representative of Group 13 (a group of donors that supports the Congolese government in matters concerning the environment, forests, water and sanitation) and the representative for conservation NGOs spoke to reaffirm their technical and financial support.
The ministers asked the Syrian National Coalition to send its representative to the group's meeting in Doha later this month.
An Amazon spokeswoman declined to comment, and a representative from Seneca Group did not respond to a request for comment.
Stinebrickner-Kauffman says a representative from her group hopes to deliver a stack of petitions to Apple executives during the meeting tomorrow.
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He also said the team had been on the brink of being sold to German businessman Oliver Behring as the representative of a group of Arab investors until the FIA's decision.
However, Mike Baker, regional representative of the Motorcycle Action Group, said bikers should not be used as scapegoats for any increase in accidents.
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The srategic review group and a representative from St Johnstone also spoke with Scottish Football Association chief executive Stewart Regan and president-in-waiting Campbell Ogilvy at Friday's meeting.
Lucie Morillon, the group's representative in Washington, says the object of the campaign is to get media attention that will make its way back to Jill Carroll's captors.
Unfortunately clinicians rarely agree (at least not in a large group) so those representative clinicians find their opinions contradicted by a portion of the clinicians they are supposed to represent.
Many are still living locally, giving researchers a unique insight into the health of a group of people who are also representative of the population as a whole.
Mr. Zoellick is a former president of the World Bank Group, U.S. trade representative and deputy secretary of state.
But a representative of the UK Pirate Party - a political group that opposes the bans - told BBC News that more proxy sites had been made available "within minutes" of BT's move.
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By all means, many believe, an enlarged and more representative civil society - ideally a larger, wider group of people from all over the country, not just a bunch of well meaning lawyers and activists from Delhi - should be putting pressure on a stubborn government to act against corruption.
Abraham Idrijani, a Philippine-based representative for the clansmen, said Kiram has ordered the group in Sabah to observe a unilateral ceasefire starting Thursday afternoon by holding their current position and taking a defensive posture.
It is an efficient way to tease out trends and sentiments by extrapolating information from a relatively small sample group, as long as the sample is representative of the population that you want to learn more about.
Dozens of countries have recognized the Syrian National Council as a legitimate representative of the Syrian opposition, though many members of the group's leadership are expatriates.
An overwhelming majority of supporters at the agm backed a challenge to the re-election to the board of directors of Donald Muir, a Murray group employee who some have claimed is effectively Lloyds representative within the corridors of power at Ibrox.
Such arguments, however, cut little ice with Jeanne Head, the United Nations representative for National Right to Life, an American anti-abortion group.
The Royal Statistical Society decided to ask a group of British MPs (Member of Parliament, think Representative in the US Congress) a really very simple question.
But it's probably going to take a mix, but it will be a mix that is representative of the population at large, not all from one ethnic group or another.
"A representative from Northern Ireland was invited to join the Safe and Sustainable steering group as an observer, " he said.
In 2006, the lower-key Knapman retired, to be replaced by Nigel Farage, a confident media performer, who pledged to make UKIP a "truly representative party", ending its image as a single-issue pressure group.
Representative JIM MATHESON (Democrat, Utah): The Blue Dogs are a group of conservative Democrats in the House of Representatives.
"U.S. companies' bids were simply disregarded, " says Charles Barnes, Japan representative of APA-the Engineered Wood Association, a U.S. trade group.
That meant those in the control group were more likely than average to be regular users, and therefore were not representative of the population at large.
With acceptance bordering on naivete, he accepts the arguments of plaintiff lawyers that the six representative smokers began huffing on lights because of deceptive advertising by Philip Morris, a unit of Altria Group.
Speakers at the conference (which then moved to a nearby hotel) included a retired philosophy professor, a representative of the Catholic archdiocese of Westminster, the chairman of the Tory Party's oldest pressure group, the Bow Group, Phillip Blond (another Tory adviser) and Cristina Odone, a journalist married to an editor at this newspaper.
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