Word: segments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...largest portion of Harvard's 1945-46 income came from tuition and other student sources; but even that category accounted for only 29.1 percent of the total income. Next highest segment of the income dollar 28.4 percent--was derived from dividends from the University endowment, while the other chief source of funds was gifts donated during the year for immediate use, amounting to 8.4 percent...
...gulf between SED and the Social Democrats is essentially the same deep gulf that divides all of Europe. Last year, a large segment of the Social Democratic Party had refused to merge with the Communists in the formation of the Russian-sponsored SED. Now, in a scrupulously fair and orderly election (there were watchers from all four parties at the polls and Allied Kommandatura control teams cruised through the city), the Social Democratic Party managed to get more than twice as many votes as SED. Even the Sedists' desperate last minute campaign stunts, including a performance of Beethoven...
...tough segment of U.S. labor was out of hand. Last week the nation's merchant fleet was tied up tight, the nation's ports were dead. This week there was some reason to expect a settlement of the biggest maritime strike in history, but only on labor's terms. The little moral authority which the Administration had left was wrecked...
When it took this position, Moscow risked alienating the very large segment of world opinion which sees in the atomic bomb the ultimate argument against unlimited national sovereignty. Apparently, the Kremlin figured that its complete freedom of action was more important than its reputation...
...Slaughter is Harry Truman's neighbor-Congressman. He represents Missouri's Fifth District, comprising about half of Kansas City and a small segment of Jackson County. The President's home district is Missouri's Fourth, taking in Independence and the rest of Jackson County...