Word: segments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Frank's Place -- are ostensibly comedies, but they go for few jokes and have no laughter on the sound track. As for the more traditional sitcoms, they are tackling such heavy subjects as AIDS (Designing Women), Alzheimer's disease (The Golden Girls) and teenage drunk driving (this week's segment of Valerie's Family). On a recent episode of Kate & Allie, a middle-class mother of two (Jane Curtin) got a taste of what it is like to be homeless when she found herself stranded in Upper Manhattan without any money. The segment closed with a gallery of stark black...
...Each chapter is a 15-minute segment, and each chapter takes on a new set of characters," Vilmure said of what he called "a kind of a literary experiment...
...White House hopefuls, only the earnest and relatively unknown Bruce Babbitt agreed to appear on Saturday Night Live, in a skit poking fun at & the character issue that is dominating the Democratic race. "It's cathartic for all of us," said Babbitt, as he taped the segment last week in New York City. "People can say Democrats can laugh at their collective misadventures." Besides, Babbitt's TV star turn can only help: the former Arizona Governor is at the bottom of the polls and running short of funds...
Consequently, I don't think "broad-minded" Harvard did us or the country any favors with the Job Fair. It looks to me as though the college wants to service a narow segment of the economy and ignore everything else...
...year-old company is the undisputed leader in a peculiar new segment of the brokerage business that finds profits in the casualties of the American economy. Known in some corporate boardrooms as "vultures," the traders at R.D. Smith specialize in buying and selling low-priced stocks and bonds issued by companies that have filed for bankruptcy protection or are perilously close to taking that step. This dishonor roll ranges from such well-known hard-luck cases as Texaco, Manville and LTV to obscure ailing firms like Crystal...