Word: segments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...comes some demanding microsurgery. The exposed artery is clamped in two places, leaving a blood-free gap 1 to 2 cm (up to about ¾ in.) long into which the freed segment of the temporal artery is sewn...
MacKay Shields Financial Corporation, the investment firm that controls a segment of Harvard's portfolio including the Citicorp and Manufacturer's Hanover stock in question, told the University last week it was selling those particular stocks as part of a $1.6 million changeover to investments with greater and faster growth potential. Walter M. Cabot '55, deputy treasurer of the University, relayed that information to the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR), but said at the same time that the sales stemmed from purely financial, and not political, motivations, though the sale has obvious political repercussions...
...race relations were getting worse, while 49% wanted the government to offer immigrants financial help to leave the country. Unquestionably Mrs. Thatcher had seized an issue of particular appeal to traditionally Labor blue-collar workers, who see the immigrants as a threat to their jobs, and to a large segment of the British public who resent the intrusion of a different culture...
...pony" bottle and bought the Lite label for its low-calorie brew, which became a runaway success; Miller staged a high-budget ad campaign that featured Mickey Spillane and ex-Football Star Bubba Smith to give a macho image to Lite. In order to crack the highest-priced market segment, which has been dominated by Anheuser-Busch's Michelob and imports, Miller last October began national sales of Lowenbrau made under license in its U.S. breweries...
...doing. Anheuser, which had 23% of the market last year, outsold Miller, 36.6 million bbls. to 24.2 million bbls.; the St. Louis company rang up sales of $1.8 billion and pretax profits of nearly $170 million, both records. It has been willing to spend to match Miller in every segment of the market. Anheuser's Natural Light has overtaken Miller Lite in some markets, and Michelob has a wide lead in the battle with Lowenbrau...