Word: segments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...series opened with a bang over Omaha, illustrating the horrors of even a "limited" use of strategic nuclear weapons, Part 2 examined U.S. and Soviet preparations for tactical nuclear war in Europe and questioned whether the resulting devastation would allow the word victory to retain any meaning. The third segment explored manpower and readiness issues, ranging from the low retention rate of Navy petty officers to the reinstitution of the draft (favored by many training officers although opposed by the Administration); it also made a plea for increased spending on spare parts and realistic training to enhance the flashy weapons...
...Fantasy performed for the first time before a full theater, he promptly canceled the last half of it; that led to a certain bemusement among those trying to follow the printed program, which remained unchanged on later evenings. Jerome Robbins had some second thoughts too: he decided that his segment of the five-part Tempo di Valse did not fit in with the rest. Out it went, just before the premiere. Since Robbins' work for the festival is his best in years, the decision may merit reconsideration...
Perhaps the greatest recent example of absurd University intransigience was its refusal last month to adopt a code explicitly promising not to discriminate against gay students. The Faculty Council was unable to find evidence of discrimination. What the Council did do was inform a large--and repeatedly harrassed--segment of the University population that the administration is unconcerned about their situation. In much the same way, Harvard has not taken the concrete steps it should to begin to solve the problems of race relations on campus...
...course, that there was no patrician order at the Harvard of the 1950s, or even that no vestiges remain today. The university will doubtlessly never lose its segment of the student body that languishes at vaunted social clubs and idles at the secluded retreats of the very rich. Yet, such members of the Class of 1956 could only survive as outcasts from the much larger group that looked forward to perhaps the ultimate opportunity for achievement, intellectual and otherwise...
...Mormon presidency usually resemble its attack on the Equal Rights Amendment in 1978. The complaint against the MX, although couched in moral terms, was not labeled a revelation, and it addressed worldly concerns. With the three-megaton missiles shuttling exclusively around Utah and Nevada, the presidency said, "one segment of the population would bear a highly disproportionate share of the burden...