Not surprisingly, Machinima attracts young males with an affinity for social media.

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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.

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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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Sale is hardly the only baseball player with a voracious appetite and an affinity for junk food.

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An investor with a natural affinity for value investing may find it useful to own a quality growth-oriented fund (and vice versa for growth investors) as a counter-balance to their own natural inclinations.

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Head teachers must ensure that chaplains have an affinity for working with children and "a commitment to the values and practices of the school".

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With a fluency in Spanish and an affinity for all things Latin American, Dr. Manheimer has traveled widely in the Spanish-speaking world, including visits to remote and dangerous areas.

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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.

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Mr. Williams and Ms. Tsien practice a kinder, gentler modernism, with an enormous sensitivity to materials and textures, and a particular affinity for crafts.

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