Word: segmental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...abrasive personality had made him unpopular with some other executives of the world's largest textile company (annual sales: $2 billion). Nonetheless, Klopman, then head of the apparel-fabrics division, was chosen last April over three other executive vice presidents, largely because he had been running a segment of Burlington that was generating a hearty share of the company's earnings. Indeed, Klopman, a tall, lantern-jawed New Yorker who had helped his father run a family company that Burlington bought in 1956, is known throughout the industry for his relentless desire to wring out maximum profit...
Harvard athletics is a triangular tryst, between the athletes, the undergrads and the alumni. Those grand old alumns make up a large segment of the Crimson's spectating force. Harvard's proximity to Boston, where many graduates live and work, makes it easy for them to get to most of the contests...
...opinion through a succession of testimony, transcripts and trials that have disturbed almost everybody else says something about true believing, and about the ability to ignore or reject evidence to the contrary. And it raises the question, as the House debate on impeachment draws near, of whether this sizable segment of opinion represents a danger to the public tranquillity if its views do not prevail...
Politicians instinctively recoil from alienating any sizable segment of opinion, which is one reason - apart from the dilatory tactics of the White House - why Watergate and impeachment have taken so long to come to resolution. The arguments of the hard-core Nixonites have been heard and debated at great length. That is the true right of a minority, and it is being fully satisfied. There is no denying that if the minority loses once the issue is put to the test, it will still find the decision hard to accept. But the rights of a minority do not include having...
Begun by the Beatles a decade ago, the rock revolution succeeded beyond everyone's wildest dreams. Rock defined an emerging segment of America, financed a counterculture, and spawned a $2 billion industry. Its principal gift to those who were young in the 1960s was to provide a common means of expression-a common music, a common language, even a kind of cathartic theater in which a Janis Joplin assumed almost mythic dimensions as a tragic heroine and Dylan strolled the stage like an Orpheus. It is no secret that rock's classic era is gone forever, along with...