Word: segmenting
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...Elite players? During a five-year term, which ended last year, as South Australia's state manager of cricket, Chappell was alarmed to see what practice involved for them. If they weren't perfunctorily engaged in the nets they were doing reductional drills - targeting one segment of a movement. Many of today's cricketers, Chappell suspects, don't know how it feels to be immersed in practice. But is he seriously suggesting they should be playing at the beach? "Absolutely. They should be doing a lot more game-scenario training, something that challenges them in ways the nets...
...charges of incompetence. Anxious to avoid a p.r. fiasco, authorities limited coverage to Greek state TV. The Deputy Culture Minister nervously smashed a bottle of red wine on the base of the arch and looked skyward. The gods of Olympus answered her silent prayer. The 9,000-ton roof segment moved - just. The closing, fittingly, was excruciatingly slow, the huge steel arch moving at a rate of 5.5 m/h as teams of engineers and builders hung like spiders from ropes and perched on cranes. It took four days in all. "Thank God," sighed Greece's chief Olympic organizer Gianna Angelopoulos...
...find a new distributor; of that there is no question. What is particularly worrisome is that the interference of powerful media conglomerates in the dissemination of politically sensitive material has lately become routine. Two weeks ago, Sinclair Broadcast Group instructed its seven ABC affiliates not to air a Nightline segment displaying the names of over 500 U.S. soldiers killed in action in Iraq because, according to Sinclair’s statement, the company deemed the program politically motivated against U.S. efforts in that country. (Meanwhile, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., blasted Sinclair’s decision...
Vanessa Tyson, a graduate student in the government department, wrote that she felt much of Eleganza was “little more than a sex show,” and found the “Pimps and Hos” segment particularly offensive...
...Tyson said. But Derek R. Melvin ’05, the executive producer of the show and the President of BlackCAST—the student theatre group that organized Eleganza—said the sexual aspects of the show were merely intended to celebrate a small segment of culture...