Word: segments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Boulder police in July snared and ticketed a flight of 55 cyclists racing past a stop sign, and Steve Clark, the city's bicycle-program coordinator, applauded the crackdown: "When one segment of the group creates bad p.r., it hurts all cyclists." In Eugene, Ore., according to Bicycle Coordinator Diane Bishop of the public-works department, police patrol university areas, especially in their annual autumn bike-safety campaign, in which, she says, "they ticket as many as 100 riders a month." Proliferating cyclists reduced Denver Post Sports Columnist John McGrath to epithet: "Look around: geeks in long black shorts...
...team of Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher. Starring John Ritter as a San Francisco police detective who inherits a run-down apartment building, the half-hour series plays like a scrunched together episode of Bochco's Hill Street Blues without the violence. The premiere segment made some jarring missteps (a running gag about a policewoman trying to seduce a gay cop) and lunged too hard for the emotional knockout (Ritter bursting into tears over the death of his landlady). But the engaging Ritter is adept at both ends of the comedy-drama spectrum, and Hooperman has possibilities...
...important defensive segment occured near the end of the third period...
...role of a judge: Liberal, moderate, conservative shouldn't apply to judging. The correct philosophy is to judge according to the intent of the / legislature or the intent of the Constitution's framers. Judges are overwhelmingly from a very narrow segment of society, and if they begin to read their own ideals into the law, then most of society isn't represented...
When talking politics with her, I keep my aberrant beliefs to myself, because I'm afraid that she'll class me with the people she despises. Perhaps that's why I'm part of the silent segment of that 80 percent who are so anonymous...