Word: segments
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Helping Matters Along. The Somali tribesmen, who make up the largest population segment of France's last colony in Africa, favor independence because they want their fellow tribesmen in neighboring (and independent) Somalia to annex French Somaliland. The trouble was that they were registered to vote in fewer numbers than the Afars, a rival tribe that wants to stay tied to France. Neighboring Ethiopia, which contains large numbers of Afars, backs the tribe's cause in French Somaliland. More than tribal loyalty is involved: Ethiopia has a sound economic motive in not wanting its outlet to the Gulf...
Golden Triangle. The route taken by Flight 740 is only one segment of the FAA's 350,000-mile network of federal airways, freeways of the sky that are complete with aerial versions of warning signs, access roads, directional guides and even parking places?the holding areas in the vicinity of busy airports. With the help of ground controllers, pilots navigate from point to point along these invisible airways by means of electronic navigational aids that provide course, distance and location information. These "navaids" range from small location-marker beacons on the ground that light a bulb on the aircraft...
...Appropriately enough, contemporary interest in Luther is proportionate to his direct impact on Protestant Christianity. Of the world's 230 million Protestants, 74.5 million call themselves Lutherans. Although a truly universal church, Lutheranism is strongest in Germany, Scandinavia and the U.S., where it is the third largest Protestant segment (after the Baptists and the Methodists). Three branches of the faith account for most of the nation's 10 million Lutherans: the Lutheran Church in America, the American Lutheran Church and the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod...
...greater degree than any other large segment of U.S. business, the housing industry depends for its health on a hefty and often erratic supply of credit. With good reason, many builders, lenders and manufacturers of building supplies blame Washington for the un even flow of mortgage money. And in last year's tight-money squeeze, they were so starved for funds that home-building fell to a nine-year low of 1,228,000 new nonfarm starts. Last week six major materials-making companies teamed up to try to reduce housing's dependence on federal credit...
That Sunday in Sanders Theater a few weeks ago, he continually stressed, as Rusk has not, the need for a political solution through negotiations "that will not sacrifice the vital interests of anybody involved." More important, he called for "international supervision to make sure no segment of South Vietnamese civilians is denied a proper place in a peaceful settlement." Apparently, this means that the Viet Cong, as terroristic and Communistic as they may be in Washington's view, will be ensured a major role in a peaceful South Vietnam...