Word: segments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kids are a great way to unite the party," says a White House aide; even House minority leader Richard Gephardt, who denounced the balanced budget, is helping plan the kiddie offensive. Most important, Clinton's advisers think children's issues strike a special chord with Americans. "The fastest growing segment of the electorate is the one concerned about protecting children and helping parents be good parents," says Clinton pollster Mark Penn...
MYLFTOJT--makes you long for the O.J. trial. Signifies anything on Court TV and CNN's Burden of Proof. See also: WO!HCAL!--Watch out! Here comes a lawyer! Signifies a segment of a news show on which an expert attorney is about to explain a case. Suitable for other lawyers...
...Segment of 1995 Average Growth population income since...
...that, said the court, could have crippled the Internet, which now has some 50 million users. Indeed, wrote Stevens in his 15-page opinion, the CDA threatened "to torch a large segment of the Internet community." Clearly the Justices, like many newbies before them, were swept up in the global reach and boundless potential of the medium. "Any person with a phone line can become a town crier with a voice that resonates farther than it could from any soapbox," Stevens observed...
...good record on safety, although it had one crash, which killed 31, in 1985. It has been profitable every year since 1987. Lately the fresh-cookie airline has pitched itself to pleasure travelers--though there are limits on how much it can push the price in that segment. Says Wally Durso, president of Travel Dynamics of Brookfield, Wis., a Milwaukee suburb: "I don't believe fares are No. 1. If Midwest Express is within $50 of a competing airline, a lot of my clients will go with Midwest Express...