Word: segments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When other companies moved in on the compact market with racy V-8 engines and bucket seats, A.M.C. was styled out. With growing national prosperity, the desire for compacts and economy faded. And for the small segment of buyers still primarily concerned with economy, high production costs make A.M.C. Americans $200 to $300 more expensive than throaty little Volkswagens. The Volks, though smaller and lighter than the American, outsells it better than 4 to 1 in the economy market, for which they compete...
Alexander said that the legal instruments which the Federal government now has at hand only affect hiring practices in a small segment of the private economy...
Political Pressures. Clearly, New York needs far more savvy in handling public employees; but so does the entire U.S. The country's 10.2 million civilian Government workers (24% of them federal) now comprise the largest single segment of the U.S. labor force. With state and local governments slated to hire 50% more workers, the public sector's share of the labor force will hit an estimated 20% by 1970. Meanwhile, having lost members in private industry, U.S. unions now regard public employees as a prime target-and already represent about 34% of them...
...process in living man, the investigators had to reconstruct their evidence from the dead. Cardiologist Meyer Friedman and Dutch-born Physiologist G. J. Van den Bovenkamp of the Harold Brunn Institute at Mount Zion Medical Center persuaded pathologists in hospitals near San Francisco to send them the occluded segment of coronary artery from each heart-attack victim on whom they had performed an autopsy. The two researchers sliced the coronary specimens crosswise, and after examining countless paper-thin specimens under the microscope, worked out the sequence of a typical coronary occlusion...
...support that he will need as the war expands and the casualty lists lengthen, he will have to pierce the apathy of those who-as of now-trust the President to make the right decisions, but have no sense of involvement in Viet Nam. There is another sizable segment of the public that understands only too well the necessity of the U.S. presence in Asia, but expects...