Word: segments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Part of the plan will extend the automated bullet lines, the only profitable segment of the railroad, by 1,000 miles by 1979. In all, Tanaka is calling for enlarging the tracks for bullet trains to 4,500 miles within the next dozen years. Though Tanaka's political opponents agree that JNR must be improved, they argue that the $40 billion plan is too lavish and will give a big push to inflation, already at 13%. The unions are not overly impressed either. They plan yet another paralyzing rail slowdown next month...
...against Israel and trained the army carefully for it. That meant, for one thing, that the goal was not to occupy territory but to destroy the enemy forces. "A desert is like an ocean," an Egyptian officer told Wynn. "A navy doesn't try to occupy a big segment of the ocean; it tries to destroy the enemy fleet. The desert is a paradise for a tactical commander but hell for a logistics officer...
...sure, most recent liberal doubt about establishing closer ties with the Soviet Union involves distaste for internal Russian policies, especially the lack of intellectual and human freedoms. But the Kremlin's unwavering hostility toward Israel-détente or no détente-has further alienated a segment of the cause's once enthusiastic liberal supporters...
...Goliath legal struggle could not have been more aptly cast if its participants had been selected by, well, a computer. There, as defendant, was the International Business Machines Corp., the $9.5-billion-a-year giant of the computer industry, facing charges that it had illegally monopolized a fast-growing segment of its business. IBM's accuser was Telex Corp., a Tulsa-based manufacturer of "peripheral" components used with computers, which last year printed out a net loss of $13 million and has earned a total of only $7,000,000 in the best (1971) of its ten years...
...groups illustrates the movement's current diaspora. One group became Jesus People U.S.A., 44 youths who evangelize in Chicago's counterculture areas. Sixty others joined a tent revival called Christ Is the Answer, which, with 200 youths aboard, is now working the Midwest. The third Milwaukee segment, which numbers 70, toured Europe, then landed in a dilapidated house in South London and called itself the Jesus Family. The group was one of many youth organizations involved in SPREE '73, a week-long mass rally in London last month that featured Billy Graham and Johnny Cash...