Word: segments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cabinet, women receive less and less respect in day-to-day social life. The sexual revolution has erased men's inhibitions, with the result that catcalls on the street have become more common than ever. Playboy Magazine and others of its ilk feature prominently on newsstands. The CNN Style segment displays women walking enticingly down catwalks and posing for the cameras with their legs bare and hips swinging. Bars at which women strip are far more popular than Chippendales...
This new countercultural trend doesn't have any media-approved philosophical leaders. And while it seems to be mostly inchoate, there's a segment of it that's far more sophisticated and authentically nonconformist than Woodstock Nation ever...
...book comes at a time when the phenomenon of self-mutilation is beginning to be noticed. On Tuesday night, October 27, there was a special segment documenting two years in the life of a self-mutilator on Dateline NBC. During the segment, they repeatedly referred to the phenomenon as "the anorexia of the '90s." In 1997, self-mutilation was also the topic of a cover story in The New York Times Magazine...
Predictably, what Zemsky calls "name-brand" schools produced more doctors and lawyers, while the "core" schools (a segment that includes most state universities) turned out more scientists and engineers, and "convenience" schools (which tend to sell education by the piece) turned out more teachers and nurses. Only name-brand schools sent a majority of graduates on to some form of further education. Name brands top Zemsky's "academic confidence" tests as well...
...second segment, the questions camesolely from the media panel...