Word: segments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unique combination of factors--pervasive prosperity, a horror of Barry Goldwater, the recent death of President Kennedy--led people in most states to vote incumbents, of either party, in unprecedented proportions. Voters with little party identification or interest in politics, voters who form the pivotal "undecided" segment of the electorate, swung almost unanimously to incumbents...
...first employed by Governor Warren and his successor, Goodwin J. Knight. Warren unveiled a program that included such previously unheard of measures as rent control and a fair employment practices act. What he was quite consciously doing was taking enough New Deal-like positions to attract a hefty segment of California's largely non-committed voters...
...text describes those who oppose the government's Vietnam policy as a small segment of our population which has the right to be heard, but whose presence demands that the majority express clearly its support of the government's purposes...
...State Department of Public Works. The veto was not absolute; any dispute would have gone to a three-man arbitration board with one neutral, one man appointed by Cambridge, and one by the DPW. Yet, despite its limited nature, the veto stalled DPW action on the Cambridge segment of the highway...
Shaffer has not fallen into the trap of abstract debate, however. He explores his theme by dramatizing a segment of actual history-the Spaniards' conquest of Peru, and more specifically, the period 1529-1532 and the events surrounding the crucial confrontations between Pizarro the Conquistador and Atahuallpa the God-Become...