Word: segments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...program was made at a cost of $150,000 by KUED-TV, the public television station of the University of Utah, where the operation took place. The Clark family cooperated on the project, because, it says, it believed the surgery segment would be used only for medical or scientific purposes. The family now contends that releasing the tape would violate its right to privacy...
That judgment comes as no news to the Navy. In hearings before the Senate Sea Power and Force Projection Subcommittee last March, Vice Admiral Robert L. Walters, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Surface Warfare, testified, "No segment of naval warfare has been underfunded for so many years as has the mine-warfare community." The Navy got only three of the four sweepers it asked for in the fiscal 1984 budget; it has requested eight more, at a cost of about $380 million each, in the fiscal 1985-88 budgets...
...company with the longest experience and the greatest mastery of distributing and marketing computers, is gradually developing a hammerlock on the personal computer segment of the market. The IBM PC, introduced in August 1981, has grabbed 26% of sales, dislodging Apple from the top position. Were it not for the fact that IBM cannot produce machines fast enough to keep up with demand, the company might be even further ahead of its competition...
Miraculous testimonies abounded on Richard Roberts' swing through Wisconsin. It was impossible to discern which people might have been cured and which were subject only to passing psychological relief. Some could even have sworn to have been made well, hoping that a taped segment of the event would make Oral's television show. Like all Christian faith healers, Richard attributes any cures to God's power, not his own, and says of his role: "If they say they are healed, no matter what you or anybody else thinks, you sure can't deny...
Like all of these shows, E.T. is a part of the phenomenon it covers, another wheel in the publicity machine it seeks to explain. Many of its features perpetuate rather than puncture Hollywood myths. Notes a senior segment producer, Helaine Swerdloff: "There is a fine line between hype and news." The question for E.T. is which side of that line it will settle...