Word: segmental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...public, a certain absence of candor, and even Nixon's lack of ease with his fellow men. "So often a nation wants to hear a President speaking to, and for, all of the people," says LIFE, "and so often it hears a Nixon argument tailored to a segment of the public. The curious paradox of Nixon is that even when he is intellectually prepared to act the statesman, he often explains himself through the inferior stratagems of the politician. Many who might rally to a policy recoil from the dissembling that accompanies it." In the end, says the editorial...
...Tribune insisted that three-quarters of its reader mail favored simplified spelling, but a significant segment of the readership came to feel the self-proclaimed "world's greatest newspaper" was rather the world's gratest. By the time McCormick died in 1955, the list of simplified words, which once ran as high as 80, was already shrinking. Reluctantly, the Trib shot down the sherif and later sank the frater. "Readers," sighs Editor Clayton Kirkpatrick, "wondered if Tribune editors knew how to spell." The latest style book retains only a few relics of the Bennett era, most of them...
Since the 1930s, Washington has spent or committed at least $20 billion for a widening array of subsidy programs to make homes and apartments cheaper for one segment or another of the population. One subsidy usually begets a demand for another, and last year Congress concocted a new batch of preference plans for the latest beneficiary: middle-income families. Among other things an $85-million program will soon be put into effect, allowing Federal Home Loan Banks to absorb mortgage interest up to $20 a month for five years for home buyers...
Ever since colonial times, the economic links between upstate New York and northern New England have been tenuous. Mountain ranges and rivers cleave the two regions; no major highway has ever been built to run between the far northeastern segment of the U.S., west and south across New York. Now, a volunteer group of business and government executives from New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine is working hard to fill that need. Among the leaders of this unusual bit of interstate cooperation are Bartlett Cram, industrial consultant; Hamilton South, a former Marine brigadier general who is now a vice...
...After the debate went off the air Helfand said, "I apologize to Papanek, he was quoting a different set of figures, but his figures only cover a small segment of the population...