Some cards have started to address this issue with affinity logos of alma maters, sports teams, or charities.
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Otto Wichterle, when a professor of chemistry in Prague in the 1950s, had discovered a polymer called hydrogel poly-hydroxyethyl methacrylate, with its affinity for water.
She exposes them to the chemical she is interested in, cobalt oxide and gold in the case of her battery work, and selects those viruses that produce proteins with an affinity for the chemical.
Besides securing the brightest minds in sports management, finance, economics, information technology and mathematics, Major League Baseball would be targeting exceptional individuals with an affinity for baseball as well as the capabilities to conduct quantitative research.
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Incredibly, Barack Obama evidently believes this record is one on which he will be able to persuade already skittish Blue Dog Democrats and Republicans with a greater affinity for the needs of our military to go along with him on the repeal, not of Bill Clinton's DADT executive order, but of a statutory prohibition on openly homosexual individuals serving in the U.S. military.
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He will not even garner all of Africa's support: sub-Saharans feel no affinity with him.
It is very much encouraged by Hugo Chavez's affinity with the Islamic Republic's tyranny.
Despite his self-styled affinity with Tony Blair, Mr Cameron has none of the former prime minister's messianic zeal.
The viewer has to have some affinity with the host, concurs Mr Stewart.
Four differently coloured dyes are used, each with a specific affinity for one of the four different sorts of base.
It becomes even more complex in departmental apps because people have an affinity with anything running in their own department.
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As a result of Chavez's ideological affinity with the Iranian regime, the presence and influence of Iran continues to grow.
But I remember in later years feeling an affinity with the hyperdecorative because it had a sense of nostalgia, in a way.
America still is the land of upside, thanks to our command of digital technology and our easy affinity with tech's cultural ramifications.
The kennels said while they are perceived as "rough and tough", in reality they are gentle and have an "affinity with children".
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They are determined to prove that via engineering prowess, great drivers and a great affinity with the public they can do well.
Communication skills, affinity with the population, knowledge of chronic conditions and ability to build relationships are just a few desirable qualifications for program leaders.
Rural and inland voters may have felt a sense of cultural and even economic affinity with the less wealthy and ostentatiously western-looking Ennahda candidates.
It is not, he says, because they share some affinity with the U.K. or U.S. but because English is the most convenient language to use.
Like Anfield, Boston's Fenway Park is one of the best-known sports venues in the world, while both cities have a strong expatriate affinity with Ireland.
Mr Zapatero, a Socialist, is likely to feel some affinity with the region, in which many countries have taken a turn to the left, commentators said.
Forster loved Richard Wagner and felt an affinity with Marcel Proust, a writer for whom musical phrasing was a paradigm both for art and for life.
Kubrick would reveal an affinity with that perspective as he developed his signature filmmaking style, an icily formal, deliberately paced approach that conveys a clinical, third-person-omniscient point of view.
The secular government of Syria, an ostensible ally of Iran, in fact shares little cultural affinity with its stridently Islamist rulers, compared with the AK party's businesslike, tie-wearing officials.
However, Mrs French said she was also "quite struck" that today's young men were "very caring and do want to have children and do have an affinity with children".
The industrial logic converged with a cultural affinity between the two groups' top executives early this year, reflecting the easy relations that usually exist between Indian and British firms.
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Ortega shares an ideological affinity with Iran including a hatred of the West so he is all too happy to use his territory as a jumping off point for terrorism.
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