Word: segments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That is wrong. A large segment of the population lost ground economically during the Reagan years--the poor. According to the 1988 United States Statistical Abstract, from 1981 to 1987 the number of Americans living in poverty increased by 3 million. The percentage of the population living in poverty also rose, as did the percentage of impoverished American children. More than one of every five American children (and two of every five Black children) currently live below the poverty level...
...first step in medical reform must be cost containment. Americans spent half a trillion public and private dollars on health care last year. Costs are skyrocketing at a yearly rate of 8.5%, more than double that of inflation and faster than in any other segment of the federal budget. By 1990 health-care costs will consume more than 12% of the nation's GNP, further draining resources from defense, education and other vital federal programs. President Bush or President Dukakis will be greeted his first year in office with a Medicare bill of $101 billion...
...years ago, offering coffee, rubbery bagels, seat phones and boat service connecting a swank art deco terminal to Wall Street. This prompted Eastern to counter with some apple juice of its own. Though Eastern's market share dropped from roughly 80% to 58%, it remained the most profitable segment of Lorenzo's airline empire...
...engineering machine with the simple congeniality of a personal computer. It will be sold, at least initially, only to colleges and universities. But by all accounts, Jobs has his eye on a much larger prize: the $3.6 billion market for high-powered workstations that represents the fastest-growing segment of the computer industry...
...exemption will probably benefit those low-income families that own their own homes, said David E. Sullivan, the only member of the City Council to vote against the increase. But, while he called the increase "progressive" in spirit, he said it would hurt a large segment of the families it was designed to protect...