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Word: segmental (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...assert leadership. He explains: "There is a problem moving from the day-to-day life of a Senator, where you are involved in the details of legislation, to a campaign, where the expression of issues is quite different." On one occasion, he had to retape a TV segment, and when he was asked for the second time why he was running, he gave a rambling, less coherent answer. During a break in the filming, he quipped: "If another problem develops, let's go back to the first tape and use subtitles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Kennedy Makes a Goof | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

...smiling, slick, charming and aging Hope stood in front of the crowd at the taping of the fifth segment of his upcoming two-hour televesion special, "Bob Hope on Campus...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Hope and Randall Joke at the Forum | 11/6/1979 | See Source »

During economic slowdowns trade restrictions are everybody's favorite panacea to unemployment induced by more efficient foreign competition. While the pressures of free trade displace only a relatively small segment of the domestic labor force, these unemployed are highly visible, and in the context of high unemployment, a democratic government is hard pressed to adopt short-term palliatives. Producers like protectionism because it is a form of government support which interferes least in their affairs. Workers in declining industries like it because it saves their jobs. The government likes it because it is a form of assistance that requires little...

Author: By Richard F. Strasser, | Title: Trade-off at Election Time | 11/2/1979 | See Source »

Reardon says the public policy segment of the campaign is likely to interest non-alumni, foundations and corporations more than the Faculty part. Officials, however, say they have no foundation grants or major advance pledges to announce...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: $20 Million From Campaign to Finance 'Missing Link' in Four Grad Schools | 10/30/1979 | See Source »

Marlow said, "there is a certain segment in Cambridge society that does not like pinball arcades." "It's not their cup of tea and they'd like to see my operation closed down," he added...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Leiman and Kenneth J. Ryan, S | Title: City Sues Under Pinball Law | 10/30/1979 | See Source »

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