Gucci, his fashion house, paid for this show, with additional support from Condé Nast Publications, and Mr. Ford's essays in goddess style put in cameo appearances here and there among groupings of dresses by other designers.

Mr. de Klerk has begun a campaign to sell his own vision of change to all South Africans, white and black, while rivalries among black ideological groupings have sharpened, making it less likely that Mr. Mandela can assemble a united front against the Government.

For several generations they were spread about among other tribal groupings.

In fact, anthropologists still use the raw data of his skull measurements, along with other techniques, in studying relationships among various ethnic groupings.

Among taxonomic groupings of mammals, the piriform cortex and the olfactory bulb become proportionally smaller in the brains of phylogenically younger species.

The interplay of individuality and unity is not one of uniformity and unanimity imposed from above," he writes, "but rather of conflict among diverse groupings that reach a dynamic consensus subject to questioning and criticism.

It tends to be more common among lower socio-economic groupings, probably reflecting more frequent and direct contacts with mice.

To understand the problem, it is necessary to understand that almost all committee memberships at the United Nations are divided among geographic groupings.

Each of the 10 seats is apportioned among geographic groupings, like Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa.

Belgium has nearly 30 political parties, divided among socialist, Catholic and liberal groupings and among electorates in Dutch-speaking Flanders, French-speaking Wallonia and bilingual Brussels.