Word: segments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From this number Professor John M. Bullitt, Quincy's Housemaster, will pick eighty, roughly eleven from each of the other Houses; and these will form the junior-senior segment of next year's Quincy population. "The applications are spread rather evenly over the Houses, and the lowest total is well over twenty; so I have lots of room to maneuver," Bullitt remarks...
...appalled at the fatuous spinelessness of so large a segment of America's fourth estate. Editors of great newspapers should have a more comprehensive appreciation of the cold, hard facts of history...
...Committee on the Houses should not act on yesterday's words, but should go on a second thought. And that second thought should be, that to force all upper-classmen into House rooms will only make a certain segment of the student body unhappy and make the rest of it uncomfortable. By lucky necessity, students got their rightful way with the University this year, and it is foolish, when the necessity is gone, for the attendant privileges and advantages to go with it. There is no reason that the University should not continue and make permanent its present policy...
...good segment of the population, of course, is covered under one plan or another, the best known being Blue Cross and Blue Shield. But policies like these offer only partial coverage to those insured. Even after an insurance corporation has defrayed medical expenses, the remaining costs can very easily be staggering. Doctors' and nurses' fees, extended treatment or psychiatric care will impose expenses that can burden a family with immense debts. In addition, poor risks, like old people, are not covered under private insurance plans, and local or state clinic facilities are necessarily limited. Modern standards of social responsibility, however...
Frede's diagnosis may be accurate for a segment of the present college generation, but it is certainly to glib. Bogard suggests that "we've been taught a helluva lot of Don'ts and almost no Do's." causes of apathy are much deeper and more complex than Frede's closing explanation suggests. In sum, the author fails to convince the reader that he is capable of more than a tabloid presentation of character or idea...