Word: segments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...networks seem as timid as ever. Shootdown, the recent NBC movie about the downing of Korean Air Lines Flight 007, was altered at network insistence to soften its charges of a U.S. Government cover-up. Midnight Caller, already the target of protests from homosexual groups over a segment on AIDS airing next week, was forced to tone down the anti-capital punishment message in another upcoming episode. The network menu may be getting spicier, but bland still seems to be the flavor of choice...
...Cosby Show, Roseanne presents the flip side of the impossibly perfect Huxtables. Yet the two shows have some key similarities: both were inspired by the monologues of a stand-up comic, and both depend on loosely structured, slice-of-life episodes rather than sitcom contrivances. A typical Roseanne segment might revolve around something as prosaic as a visit to a restaurant or a discussion of how to pay the bills. (Roseanne's strategy: "You pay the ones marked final notice, and you throw the rest away.") Best of all, behind the put-downs and childish taunting lies a genuinely affectionate...
Aruca said he is most concerned about theconditions among the large Miami community ofCuban-Americans. "Family needs have nothing to dowith ideology," said Aruca. "A good segment of thecommunity wants to visit relatives in Cuba. Thosewho oppose this usually don't have relativesthere...
...fantasy is effective: private-label clothes have become a dominant and highly lucrative segment of the retailing industry. While department stores have long produced some house brands, many of them offered little more than staple merchandise like cotton-blend men's shirts in a few colors. Now the styles are proliferating so fast that they are pushing well-known designers off the racks. Major retailers today sell 600 different lines of private-label clothing, up from 250 five years ago, according to Kurt Salmon Associates, a consulting firm. House brands accounted for up to 20% of the $125 billion...
Bhutto mixes appeals to virtually every segment of Pakistani society with sharp attacks on the Muslim League for collaborating in Zia's authoritarian rule. Rejecting the socialist policies associated with her father, Bhutto proposes to end poverty through economic growth rather than by taxing the rich. At the same time, she has made it clear that there will be no witch- hunts in the army if she is elected. Bhutto promises to maintain good relations with the U.S. and says she will uphold Pakistan's pledge to aid the mujahedin rebels in Afghanistan. Alliance candidates, for their part, intend...