Word: segments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...growing segment within the council argued that to best serve students the council should avoid sharp political disputes by restricting its role to the social and services realm. Many council-watchers point to the term of Council Chairman Brian C. Offutt '87 two years ago as the last time these issues divided the council...
Meanwhile, Wallace says, administrators faced the decision of how much money to spend to improve facilities for such a small segment of the student population. But even when the University made concessions at the threat of legal action or public embarrassment, Wallace says changes were always minor and limited to case-by-case modifications instead of general projects...
...broadcasts are reaching a growing audience abroad, foreign reports are also starting to flicker across American TV screens. Every week CNN World Report features 2 1/2 hours of uncensored stories from broadcasters throughout the world. Any news agency is free to contribute, although CNN reserves the right to cut segments longer than three minutes. Since World Report went on the air last fall, 86 news organizations in 80 countries, ranging from Argentina to Zimbabwe, have participated. A segment from Uruguay's SAETA TV, for example, reported on Pope John Paul II's recent tour of four South American nations...
Some tutors say they view the program's socializing function as more important than the academic instruction. At times, however, the two become virtually indistinguishable. Freed recalls one Monday when he and an inmate were reviewing the social studies segment of a GED exam. "He couldn't find America on the map. We put aside the book and just talked about the basic principles this country was founded on," Freed recalls. "These were new ideas to him, and finally he said, `Wow, this is really neat...
...comeback on its new large engine, the PW4000, for which it has won orders from Singapore Airlines and Korean Air. Says Selwyn Berson, head of the firm's commercial-engine division: "Two-thirds of the $60 billion in new sales over the next ten years will be in that segment of the market...