Word: segments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aptitude among boys and girls in the tested samples were hard to ignore. Administering the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) to seventh and eight-graders with observed ability in mathematics. Stanley found that boys perform on part with girls on the verbal portion, but do much better on the math segment. The largest differences were between the highest scoring boys and the highest scoring girls, and, in each of the six talent searches between 1972 and 1979, the top performer...
Last week he concluded on a high note eight years as head of Time Inc.'s magazine division. Under his aegis that segment of the company experienced remarkable growth. MONEY, PEOPLE and DISCOVER were launched, LIFE was reborn, and Time Inc.'s magazine revenues tripled, to $1 billion. Of those achievements, Keylor is proudest of the successful birth of PEOPLE, which now has a circulation of 2.3 million. Says he: "When we set out to launch PEOPLE nothing like it had ever been tried before. You get a much greater sense of pride when you're breaking...
...years ago Cleveland was a national joke. The combative antics of 32-year-old Mayor Dennis Kucinich had outraged nearly every segment of the population, and the citizens were trying to have him recalled. The president and five members of the city council were indict ed for accepting bribes from carnival operators. The school board president was arrested for baring his bottom in public...
...reason for the convoluted accounting is the networks' refusal to pay full production costs of the shows they buy. A program like Charlie's Angels, which is really a display case for three beautiful detectives wearing as little as possible, costs $623,000 a segment. But ABC pays Spelling-Goldberg Productions only $583,000, leaving a deficit of between $800,000 and $900,000 a season. It is generally not until a series is sold for syndication that the deficit is erased and the big profits begin. Until then, producers borrow, worry about cost overruns...
...When you look at a House that has no minority students, it's very easy for that segment of the Harvard community to feel they're unwelcome in those places--it's not unreasonable for them to feel uncomfortable," he added. Seven Houses have a smaller proportion of Black students than the average for all Houses, 8.1 per cent, the study shows...