Word: segments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Heath's big score seems as unlikely as breaking the bank at Monte Carlo, it isn't. Like a gambler hooked on high-stakes roulette, the general-interest segment of the $15 billion book-publishing industry is on a binge. In this go- go market, which represents one-third of an industry that includes books ranging from college texts to Bibles, editors are frantically putting bets on any potential best sellers. In recent months, the spin of the wheel has made not only a construction worker but also a Yale history professor and several fresh college graduates richer than they...
...segment of the population is overlooked. Youth is warned that food fights are unattractive and dangerous: "At Phillips Exeter Academy, a student was hit in the face with a piece of dining-hall meatloaf. Some of it got in his mouth, and he died." Older readers are counseled on fashion. For men: "A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life." For women, four iron rules: "1) No jewelry bigger than your dog; 2) No dog smaller than your purse; 3) No purse larger in diagonal measurement than your...
...Harvard senior and his woman friend are assaulted walking between Grays and Weld Halls on Harvard Yard. The confrontation with Cambridge youths takes place in a dimly lighted segment of the Yard pointed out to College officials as unsafe only weeks earlier...
Controlling the daily cycles is a cluster of 10,000 nerve cells -- altogether about the size of the head of a pin -- that are located in the hypothalamus, a segment of the brain. Some biological timepieces appear to take their cue from temperature or barometric pressure, but many are synchronized with the cycle of light and darkness caused by the rising and setting of the sun. Experiments conducted in caves, like the one in New Mexico, and others in special laboratories purposely remove all such cues. In Follini's module the temperature was a constant 69 degreesF, and the only...
What Baker has to say, however, is likely to displease severely not only Moscow but also some U.S. allies, and an influential segment of American and European public opinion. The Secretary will propose a date, probably in June, for resuming the START negotiations on reducing strategic nuclear weapons. But otherwise Baker has no major U.S. initiatives to announce and no plans to match, let alone top, Gorbachev's innumerable catchy detente proposals...