Word: segments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Over the years, American labor leaders have pounded tables and called out the pickets to win such benefits as early retirement. But retire themselves? Not if they can help it. More than any other segment of the economy, U.S. labor is still run by an old guard that stubbornly refuses to hand over responsibility and power to younger...
...general feeling pervades the young, dynamic segment of the profession that many significant reforms should come within the next five or ten years. While many teachers are willing to criticize the system, some balk at efforts to effect concrete change. As one reader put it, they have too much of a stake in the old ways, in preserving the practices which make a teacher's job in some ways one of the least demanding in India today...
Random telephone calls to Radcliffe last night showed that a substantial segment of students are wearing sack-cloth and ashes. "I'm really broken up. I want to know what she looks like," walled the young lady on bells at Edmands House. Another Cliffie had already seen a picture of the new Mrs. Beatle, and offered that she thought Ringo could have picked a prettier mate. "But I guess it's okay; they've been going together for a long time...
...sentence later to the fact that the Republican party is still the party of conservatives: "At the same time all Republican spokesmen would do well to distinguish clearly and publicly between irrational and irresponsible extremist elements and the millions of radonal, responsible and traditional conservatives who comprise a large segment of Republican voting strength...
...times hill-size-problems. Unexpected construction problems and disputes with Swiss authorities over routing changes have put ENI behind schedule on the Central Europe pipeline. A 342-mile branch is still lying idle because the German town of Lindau refuses to allow the construction of a five-mile segment along the shore of Lake Constance. Reason: fear that the pipe might burst and spew oil into the lake, polluting the town's water supply. The new Trans-Alpine project has already encountered its first delay. Indecisive elections have left San Dorligo, a town near Trieste, without a municipal government...