Word: segments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have come to the aid of the GSA; a petition of "Straights for Gays" collected hundreds of signatures favoring the GSA measure last spring. Now all students should mobilize behind the GSA. Without pressure from all students, the University's intolerance towards gay students will persist and a large segment of the community will be denied the rights it deserves...
...world." Satellite NewsChannels will carry film footage from ABC News but will not enlist the network's on-camera correspondents. Using four of the Group W stations and a mini-network of other local stations around the country, the new channel will also produce a five-minute segment each hour of local and regional news, a bonus that CNN does not provide...
...Rouse believes, is that American values have changed. While as many as 65% of all U.S. households now have two wage earners, more than half have no children; thus two of the compelling arguments for suburban living, acceptable schools and affordable housing, are becoming increasingly irrelevant for a sizable segment of the population. Moreover, says Rouse, "the old dream of suburbia ?the house with a fence and the backyard barbecue?is fading. Young people increasingly tend to look at the suburbs as sterile and uninteresting...
...commanders favor the draft as the only way to bring into the services the educated white middle-class youths that they are not now attracting (the military forces are the only major segment of American society in which blacks have on the average more education than whites). But many senior officers dread the idea. They fear that the draft would rekindle the intense hostility toward the military that plagued the armed forces for years during and after Viet Nam. Nonetheless, a growing number of officers and, most reluctantly, Congressmen believe that a draft may be unavoidable...
...premise is familiar enough: A respected director loses all credibility after the failure of his latest multi-million dollar flick. And the film moves quickly at the beginning. After a brief segment from Felix Farmer's (Richard Mulligan) epic disaster, the camera turns to Felix himself. Staring at Variety catatonically as his wife leaves him, he decides to kill himself by inhaling the exhaust of his $80,000 Cadillac. Julie Andrews, as Sally Miles, Farmer's wife and the star of his films, plays herself. When told by her lawyers that she should not seek a divorce in the wake...