Word: segmented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shows, G.E.'s Carousel of Progress is one of the most frankly commercial, but it is so studded with million-dollar gimcracks that it is worth seeing. Six audiences watch it at once, revolving in their seats to stop in front of segment after segment of a central stage. The star is a man who looks like Lowell Thomas full of formaldehyde. He sits in his kitchen, taps his foot nervously, blinks, and brags about his household appliances. He is made of plastic-Walt Disney again-and so is his dog, which grrrs and twitches on the floor. Caroline...
...does not have to attack these assumptions on philosophical grounds to document failure to achieve these ends through Negro protests. The issue is whether the strategy has worked. In large measure, the segment of the white population assumed sympathetic to Negro rights, white liberals, as represented by the New York Times, have opposed all major protests, especially those in the North, e.g. the March on Washington and school boycotts. Further, referenda which would guarantee Negro constitutional rights have been defeated or narrowly passed, e.g. Cambridge, Maryland, and Kansas City, Kansas. In addition, public officials have received more votes when they...
...large part of the responsibility for sustaining the team's winning ways lies with the defense--undoubtedly the strongest segment of the team...
Meanwhile, the Republican Party, unable under our present system to speak effectively with one voice, allows itself to appear to be split into parts. The larger segment of its voting strength recognizes, with considerable accuracy, that the Democratic solution to the problem inevitably involves another increase in power for the central Government. On those grounds, they oppose it. The smaller part of the Republican Party, because it puts predominant stress on solving the problem, swallows reservations about the increase in centralism and determines to support the solution offered by the Democrats, or some version...
...long time, but it has clearly become even more aggravated by prosperity. Just to hold at the present level of unemployment, the economy not only must generate at least 3,500,000 new jobs every year for the rest of the decade, but upgrade the skills of the lower segment of the work force...