Word: segments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...started an on-air book club. In 1997 she launched the Angel Network, an ongoing campaign to spur her viewers into doing good works, like building houses for needy families, volunteering at local schools and saving spare change to fund college scholarships. She recently added a regular segment to her show titled "Remembering Your Spirit," which focuses on the rather lofty goal of soothing viewers' souls. "Oprah set the standard in daytime television," says fellow daytime host Rosie O'Donnell. "She consistently maintains a decency and morality on her show that gives talk shows a positive name...
...Internet, and we came up with all kinds of hits for every one of those jokes," Barnicle claims. "They're just out there floating in the air in the public domain." But when Boston's WCVB-TV, where he is a contributor, produced a tape of a June 22 segment in which Barnicle held up the book and said it had "a yuk on every page," the paper asked for his resignation; he refused. At week's end, word was the Globe was about to fire him. Last Friday, Barnicle met with publisher Ben Taylor; it was not a happy...
...matter. To Hollywood, kids matter. They are the most avid movie patrons--nearly half go twice a month or more, double the rate for 25-to-34-year-olds--and there are more of them than ever before. "The teenage population is growing faster than any other segment," says Paramount executive Rob Friedman, "and their tastes are more sophisticated than they used to be." They go for hip variations on old themes, flocking to the two Scream films (each earned more than $100 million at the domestic box office) or to a canny thriller like last year's I Know...
...seen the change in every segment of society: blacks, non-Hispanic whites and Hispanics," says Marian Willinger, director of SIDS research at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and a co-author of the JAMA study. Much of the credit goes to a public-health campaign begun in 1994 under the slogan Back to Sleep. But not everyone has got the message. Those who are still more likely to place their infants on their stomachs include mothers ages 20 to 29, African Americans in the inner city and families who live in Middle Atlantic or Southern states...
...eliminate redundancy and stop competing with itself. Take the Chevrolet Camaro and Pontiac Firebird. In their heyday, the sporty siblings divided up a broad and profitable market of muscle-car enthusiasts. These days, though, muscle mania has waned, and the pair is left slugging it out in a narrowing segment. GM execs may want to keep at least one of the offerings to compete with the popular Ford Mustang, but they are faced with a dilemma: both cars are built in the same plant in Quebec, and killing one would threaten the other by making it prohibitively costly to produce...