Word: segments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...children--with Ike, Jack, Lyndon, Dick, Jerry, Jimmy, and Ronald, Feiffer's collection uniquely bridges the gap between the timeless New Yorker genre of cartoon and the dated, sharply topical political humor of a Herblock or an Oliphant. The combination effectively gives Feiffer's particular perspective on how one segment of the country lives, and how it has transformed...
...Crimson entitled "A Biased Forum." The letter was apparently an attempt to undermine the validity of this weekend's conference on peace in the Middle East. "Common Ground," and although it is too late to respond to some of Laura Wharton. '83's criticisms before the Sunday segment of the conference, the record, and tonight's closing panel, demand an explanation...
...Socialist electoral platform. Its main focus is a plan to fight unemployment by creating 200,000 jobs annually over the next four years. Unlike France's Socialist President François Mitterrand, González does not seek to make jobs through sweeping nationalizations. Indeed, the only segment of the economy proposed for state takeover is the electrical grid. Instead, the party calls for a tightly controlled state credit program to support small and medium-size business investment in depressed areas. In foreign policy, the P.S.O.E. platform has a neutralist tinge and, in its most controversial position, raises...
Television has developed an elaborate jargon that has possibilities as slang. Voiceover, segue, intro and out of sync have been part of the more general language for a long time. Now there is the out-tro, the stand-up spiel at the end of a news reporter's segment. A vividly cynical new item of TV news jargon is bang-bang, meaning the kind of film coverage that TV reporters must have in order to get their reports from El Salvador or the Middle East onto the evening news...
...greater source of concern to Quad residents should be the possibility that a genuine billionaire will reach into his pocket and endow North or South House. That's when chaos will truly reign, because this segment of the population is completely insane. Howard Hughes is no longer with us, for which students at the Quad should count their blessings: he might have rolled one day and decided to rename one dorm or another Little Balls of String House...