Word: segments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...biggest, most crucial, yet least predictable segment of the budget is defense. And though the Administration is striving mightily to keep it to a minimum, the Pentagon last week was in labor with a behemoth...
...senior advisers and advisers of extracurricular activities, the committee was able to isolate the "one to two hundred people who stood out and seemed to be contributing a lot to the community already," Monro said. With their roommates, these students were distributed first among the different Houses; this segment constituted about 30 to 40 per cent of the class...
...Smith of the Pytchley Hunt, says that it "has something to do with the mechanical age creating a longing to get back to something near the earth." He adds: "We even have factory workers hiring ponies and riding out without sleep after working a night shift." But one vocal segment of the British population objects to this form of outdoor recreation...
Partly overregulated (railroads), partly underregulated (waterways), and partly free from all rate and route controls (contract truckers), transportation today is a Balkan thicket. Each uncoordinated segment has been encouraged to grab as much of the total market for itself as possible. The predictable result: too much capacity in some places (parallel rail lines), too little elsewhere (a shipping shortage for Viet Nam). On top of that, lawmakers, bureaucrats and private executives alike have virtually ignored the obvious matter of synchronizing transportation by auto, bus, rail or plane. Not a single railroad, for example, connects directly with a major airport...
...stick to the old American belief that there is an objectivity. If a man says the world is round, we run out to find someone to say it is flat." Network executives are also quick to delete any portion of a news program that might offend any powerful segment of the audience. Top management, said the late Edward R. Murrow, "with a few notable exceptions has been trained in advertising, research, sales or show business. But by the nature of the corporate structure, they also make the final and crucial decisions having to do with news and public affairs. Frequently...