Word: segments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eventually, as the evolving natural paternalism of colonialism attacked slavery, tribal warfare, illiteracy, and some grosser forms of oppression, a westernized class of Africans arose. In this segment of westernized Africans--which generally came to resent both exploitation and paternalism--the roots of nationalism in Africa began to arise in the 20th century...
...multinational firms which control this segment of Africa's economy are only encouraged to put more and more money into their African operations because of the phenomenal 15 to 20 per cent returns they may bring. But most of this investment goes into economies which support one of the most threatening problems to peaceful and equitable development in Africa: the artificial racial barriers erected by the White-dominated colonies and countries in the South. As long as these remain the uneven investment patterns which favor the white centers of development, there is little hope that an equitable integration of races...
...from. She bristled when Mrs. Volner termed the interval "an erasure." "You may call it an erasure?I call it a gap," protested Miss Woods. Later she testified she was not at all certain there had been any conversation under the noise. "I never heard any words on that segment," she said...
...best precarious. Senator Muskie was defeating him in the early trial heats; Senator McGovern was only eight points behind in May; and even after the California debates, the $1000 plan, and the Democratic Convention, the McGovern polls showed--as the Nixon polls surely also did--that a substantial segment of the electorate was only tentatively committed to Nixon and wanted to know more about McGovern before making a final choice...
...court three weeks ago. She said she had spent 31½ hours trying to transcribe the conversation. While she mentioned various troublesome sounds, including bomblike noises when the President put his feet on his desk near a hidden microphone, she made no mention of such a large segment of conversation being obliterated by a persistent tone. If the obscuring sound had been present when she heard the tape, she presumably would have informed the court...