Word: segments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surprise move last week, a segment of the Administration made the American role public by leaking details to the New York Times. Unnamed Administration officials disclosed that President Reagan, hoping to turn the screws on Moscow for its three-year-old effort to control Afghanistan, had ordered an increase in the quantity and quality of arms for the insurgents fighting the 105,000-man Soviet force. In December, the officials said, the Central Intelligence Agency began providing the rebels with bazookas, mortars, mines and recoilless rifles. Since then the Soviets have stepped up their military activity. The result has been...
Stern's presses rolled on with the first installment of the diaries, a segment ostensibly showing that Hitler had approved the celebrated solo flight of his trusted deputy Rudolf Hess to England as war raged in 1941. Next day, Stern's great coup was blitzed...
Balanchine's musical acumen paid off, spectacularly, in an almost lifelong partnership with Composer Igor Stravinsky, resulting in such landmarks as Apollo (1928), Orpheus (1947) and Agon (1957). The first dance Balanchine ever made to Stravinsky's music in the West was a segment of The Song of the Nightingale in 1925, and the last major project he worked on, the City Ballet's 1982 Stravinsky centennial celebration, included a new version of Noah and the Flood...
...Harvard and never return, and novels that check into Harvard and never leave. And virtually every one of them--as if to observe an unwritten rule of the genre--pauses for at least one bounce on a Buildings and Grounds cot before reaching its conclusion Surely no other segment of the population (with one possible exception) is as sharnelessly obsessed with the sex life of Harvard students as the creators of Harvard fiction...
...Black ethnic-bloc voting in Chicago that ensured Harold Washington's victory has opened up that city's governance to a sizeable segment of the population heretofore excluded from executive leverage. As such this ethnic-bloc voting was progressive, not racist or regressive, widening the range of pluralistic participatory values Some one-fifth of whites in Chicago had enough decency and were mature enough regarding the pluralistic norms that define American democracy to assist Washington's electoral victory. As Blacks consolidate their status of political parity with whites in Chicago, they can be expected to diversify their bloc-voting...