And the number of "non-regular workers" (a term that encompasses temporary, part-time and contract workers) is increasing.
Athersys's cells, derived from human bone marrow, have not yet been tested in people with inflammatory bowel disease, a term that encompasses ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease.
The parents must be "lawfully present" in the U.S., a term that encompasses citizens, green-card holders, refugees, and others with official protected status.
"Ethnic" restaurants -- a term that encompasses African-American, Asian, Latino and Middle Eastern but not, for some reason, French or Italian -- are generally comfortable with young children, perhaps because they tend to be family-run.
Motion Picture Medical There are about 200 medics -- a term that encompasses emergency medical technicians, paramedics and registered nurses -- who specialize in working on Hollywood sets, soundstages and locations.
He said it had "brought wonderful things to the haredi world," a term that encompasses both Hasidim who revere individual rabbis and other ultra-Orthodox Jews like those in Lakewood who do not.
When Alvaro Lorenzo and his wife, Paula Pivel, decided to turn their love of wine into a business in 1998, they spent months searching for the right terroir, the French term that encompasses both soil and climate.
Like all the top young players, Bowen had made his reputation in grass-roots basketball, a catchall term that encompasses Amateur Athletic Union (A.A.U). teams, their tournaments, all-star events and the summer camps.
The trouble is, with an exponentially more expansive media than ever before, this has become a blanket term that encompasses advertising, television, film, news, magazines, webzines -- et cetera, et cetera.
Genetic screening is a loose term that encompasses everything from a few questions on paper to an in-person interview with a certified counselor trained to find inherited diseases lurking in the family tree.
Smaller stocks, the nebulous term that encompasses almost all but the 500 or so biggest U.S. companies, have generally been left in the blue chips' dust since the stock market's sharp pullback in July.
