Word: segments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...allying himself with the Religious Right and its tendency toward a self-righteous zeal, President Reagan can seem, at times, to be appropriating godliness itself for his party and Administration. Last week Columnist Mike Royko joked bitterly about the tendency. "They've managed to convince a large segment of the population that God is a conservative Republican...
...last week. The video event was not especially convincing. Footage purporting to show that the Sakharovs are healthy, indeed prospering, had apparently been taken months ago. The tape had been spliced in many places, and relatives who are now in the West recognized at least one segment as being more than a year old. In one brief sequence, however, a strikingly thin and exhausted-looking Sakharov is seen eating some food at a table on which a July 16 copy of Newsweek has been conspicuously placed. The videotape proved one thing: Sakharov had interrupted, though perhaps not ended, his hunger...
...Great Wall, which snakes across some 4,100 miles of northern China, has long been a symbol of national unity. Today the world's longest man-made structure also symbolizes disintegration. According to the Peking Evening News, more than half of the 100-mile segment within Peking's municipal limits is in ruins. One 19-mile stretch in Miyun county has virtually disappeared. The collapse is due partly to erosion and neglect through the ages; much damage was also done by peasants who expressed their contempt for tradition during the Cultural Revolution (1966-76) by ripping off pieces...
...final step in a three-month, $3.2 million project. If they are successful, water on the south side of the lake will fall about 9 in. during the next two months, lessening the threat of floods to Salt Lake City, nearby suburbs, interstate highways and railroads. The north segment of the lake, located in a thinly populated area, could climb as much...
...different times and different musical approaches are needed. Perhaps, but a survey of contemporary pop music hardly inspires the kind of change and activistnecessary for a world warring in every hemisphere. Travers says today's popular music commercially defined by the 13-25 age group, "articulates for that segment of society, a social angst--a haunting anxiety about the future." Whereas the popular music of the 1960s took on heavy topics with an eye towards change and hope, today's music is fraught with frustration, alienation and egoism...