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The program thought it could do this by a) making us watch Pepsi-sponsored movies featuring anti-drug propaganda and shrewd product placement; b) reinforcing the most obnoxious cliques on campus by choosing all the "All Star" officers from a popular group of athletes and cheerleaders (on average, B and C students who drank, smoked, and skipped class); c) doing everything possible to conceal the fact that high school's purpose is education; and d) giving us the opportunity to buy as much "All Star" merchandise as our parents could afford.
And while there are, of course, factions and cliques within economics--don't get me started--there is, in general, a surprising degree of agreement about what constitutes good work.
Once the entire graph is constructed, all the maximal sets of completely connected nodes (cliques) are found using a clique-finding algorithm [ 34 ] . The cliques with the best total weights represent the optimal combinations of mixing and matching among the various possibilities, taking the respective environments into account [ 35 ] . The clique-finding approach for generating conformations is fast, since it pre-calculates all the scores.
By the early 1900s the area had become a sort of bohemian quarter, beloved of the city’s cliques of writers, artists, and intellectuals.
Different groups, ranging from urbane students to cliques involved in drug smuggling and prostitution, pepper their language with English or English-based expressions.