Word: segmented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nearly every segment of the nation's business shared in the advance, thanks chiefly to a larger-than-expected third-quarter growth in the total output of U.S. goods and services ($11 billion v. an anticipated $9.5 billion). Remarkably, this gain was made without any substantial impetus from the Viet Nam war; military spending now equals only 8.6% of the gross national product, 1% less than three years...
...least profitable segment of the population-the estimated 10 million to 11 million people aged 65 and over who are insured by the companies-will be taken off the industry's hands. Health insurance for this group is twice as expensive to write as for the rest of the population, and many insurance companies just about break even...
More Amenities. The main reasons for the decline in demand are 1) the overbuilding that took place earlier in the 1960s, and 2) the decrease in the biggest buying segment of the population, people aged 30 to 40, most of whom were born during the low birthrate years of the Depression. Main reason for the higher prices: the continuing jump in the price of land, the economy's most inflated commodity...
That, in turn, was not enough for Wilson. He warned Smith of "unmentionable and highly dangerous consequences" if Rhodesia seceded. Smith was evidently prepared to call his bluff. He was banking heavily on the probability that although some voices in Britain were calling for British troops, a vast segment of British public opinion would protest the use of tommies to put down an Anglo-Saxon insurrection (Britain has not gone in for that sort of thing since 1776). Instead, what seemed to lie ahead was economic reprisals: the freezing of Rhodesia's sterling deposits, ejection from the Commonwealth...
Reportedly, Castro felt that he could streamline his revolution by allowing the very young, the old, and the discontent to leave, eliminating a large segment of the population which consumes without producing. Theoretically the remaining devotees would be enthusiastic enough to suffer through the painful stages of development. Castro had nothing to lose and everything to gain...