Word: segments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Colorado accusers was politically motivated. A graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, Rose had created a stir in the early '70s with a law- review article charging the military academies with violating the rights of cadets charged with honor-code transgressions. He discussed his charges on a segment of 60 Minutes and later represented 100 West Point cadets accused of cheating...
Although small in scope and results, the operation represented a significant escalation in the Reagan Administration's open-ended commitment to use the military against cocaine, the addictive white powder that is now the fastest-growing segment of the approximately $125 billion illicit U.S. drug market. American soldiers will remain in Bolivia for at least two months, transporting the Leopards on search-and-destroy missions into the countryside. U.S. officials are said to be reviewing similar requests for military assistance from Peru, Ecuador and Colombia -- countries that, along with Bolivia, produce almost all the cocaine sold...
...garbage collectors are protesting, among other things, the two-year, 10% wage package the city has offered their union. The haulers, however, represent only a small segment of the Philadelphia municipal workers who were on strike. Libraries, city-run museums, and swimming pools have been shuttered during the walkout. Meanwhile, last week municipal workers in Detroit followed Philadelphia's example and walked off the job for higher wages, shutting down buses, the city zoo and, yes, garbage collection. As the rubbish piled up there as well, a county judge ordered the city and unions, which represent 7,000 striking workers...
...Republicans what race is to Democrats. Religion could tear the G.O.P. apart in the next election." Tony Podesta, executive director of People for the American Way, which was formed as a foil to Falwell's Moral Majority, says that Republicans are in danger of becoming dominated by a narrow segment of the ideologi- cal spectrum. "In many places," he says, "the Republican Party machine thought it would be good to broaden their base and ended up getting swallowed up by the religious-right movement...
...allow the human chain to snake through the White House grounds and to join in himself. "This house," said Reagan, "belongs to all the people and is a symbol of the American dream." But for obvious security reasons, not "all the people" will be permitted in the White House segment of the line--only Secret Service agents, White House personnel and families and accredited journalists...