Word: segments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week Ronald Reagan tried to reach out and touch someone. Dan Rather. The President was alone in his White House study last Tuesday evening watching the 6:30 Baltimore telecast of the CBS Evening News when Anchorman Dan Rather introduced one segment of the network's coverage by saying, "Taken together, Mr. Reagan has now reversed policy and infuriated conservative members of his own party on two scores: first the tax increases, now China." With that, recalls one White House adviser, the President "went through the ceiling." He telephoned Aides Michael Deaver and James Baker...
...hour, 926-mile London-to-Venice trip, the train leaves Victoria Station at 11:44 a.m. each Friday and Sun day. The northbound V.S.O.E. leaves Venice's Santa Lucia Station at 5:25 p.m. on Saturday and Wednesday. The English segment of the train, which does not cross the channel, consists of seven chocolate-and-cream cars that were built for the old Orient Express. They have comfortable English names like Audrey and Agatha (not for Miss Christie, who wrote Murder on the Orient Express) or else daunting classical appellations like Perseus and Phoenix. Some English passengers are greeted...
...million bbl. last year. The firm's Budweiser brand is the largest-selling premium-priced beer in the U.S., with a typical retail price of $2.40 a sixpack, while Michelob, the company's "superpremium" offering, at about $2.90 a sixpack, leads that market segment as well...
...most alienated segment of Polish society is the young. Whether headed for factories or universities, they see no prospect for great personal freedom or even for better economic conditions. Says a University of Warsaw professor: "The state of war has created a generation of opposition." Despite government efforts to tighten ideological controls and reinstitute mandatory classes in Marxism-Leninism, Polish youths are adopting styles of rebellion from their Western peers...
...officials guiding the renovations of Lowell House and the Standish half of Winthrop are more cautious when expressing optimism over the prospect for completion by September. The project, with costs roughly equivalent to that of the stadium work marks the first segment of a seven to 10 year rehabilitation of the Houses, estimated to cost $35.40 million when completed...