Word: segmental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...neglected a big segment of the daytime soap-opera audience: those lonely people, both young and old, who find in the characters the family, friends, continuity and roots they are denied by contemporary society...
...felt I had an obligation to the community," explains Balthazar, who had long been known as a doctor who let patients pay whenever and whatever they could. Besides, he says, such service is in the best tradition of medicine. "Oh, yes," he admits, "we have a very mercenary segment that displays the avariciousness and lack of humanitarianism of the times. But for most doctors it's always been a privilege to treat the needy, without trumpets or fanfare...
...entire federal budget. To show its present snarl of red tape-and the need for reform-President Ford had a "mess chart" prepared on the health services provided by the department. The entire chart is shown on the opposite page (actual size: 4 ft. by 11 ft.). The adjoining segment is reproduced to give a closeup idea of its complexity...
...greatly enhanced by a strong undergraduate orchestra. Yearly tours would provide some outstanding performance experiences and serve to draw more musicians to Harvard. Free concerts would virtually guarantee a full concert hall and open new programming possibilities. Credit for orchestral performance would satisfy the needs of a much broader segment of the undergraduate population...
...Edward R. Murrow, for example, was often shunted from one time slot to another and finally canceled. Paley, says Halberstam, found it too controversial and not profitable enough. In 1972, says Halberstam, Paley intervened in newsroom decision making in a more chilling way. He tried to cancel the second segment of an Evening News report on Watergate, the result of White House pressure. The report finally ran but at about half its planned length. Yet CBS has since aired excellent public-affairs programs and has just returned the highly regarded 60 Minutes to regular prune time...