Word: segments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...France-first Minister of Culture, has dropped his complaints about "American cultural imperialism." The proportion of U.S. programming on French television has increased from 9% only four years ago to 17%. Says Etienne Mougeotte, publisher of Tele 7 Jours, the French equivalent of TV Guide: "My children watch every segment of Dallas and Dynasty every week. Otherwise they would be out of it in school...
...form of symbolic speech stating the views of one small segment of the community." Fram added...
...format devised as an upshot of this bit of pop-psych market research pits He-Man's Heroic Warriors against the forces of evil every weekday on 166 television stations. In each half-hour segment, He-Man starts out as a mere wimp of a kid named Adam. When he raises his sword and utters the magic incantation, Adam turns into a hero who looks like Prince Valiant with Arnold Schwarzenegger's physique. Since the animated cartoon premiered 15 months ago, it has gained 9 million viewers, most of them boys ages four to seven...
Committee members emphasized the symbolic importance of the separation, which is not expected to cause major financial problems for the clubs and affects only a small segment of the student population...
Before the great campaign of '84 is handed over to the history professors, one of its unfortunate side effects bears a glance or two. Besides marking Ronald Reagan's return to the White House, this year will be remembered for the way a sizable segment of the pundits, academics and campaign theorists turned against the American electorate...