Word: segments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...segment called Welcome to the World was the next big number, and it too had everything: 30 pickup trucks; 300 members of a marching band; an assortment of 374 cloggers, steppers and precision dancers; 500 cheerleaders and 83,000 audience participants, including the members of the First Family, who did the wave as per rehearsal instructions. The chrome-plated trucks, which provided lighting around the field, were the most controversial part of the program because 1) they were Chevy trucks, and commercialism is taboo during the ceremonies; and 2) they supposedly fostered the redneck stereotype of the South...
...past couple of years, a business exceeding more than half a billion dollars has emerged that the trade calls "eatertainment." Theme restaurants, a combination plate of amusement park, diner, souvenir stand and museum, have become the fastest-growing segment of the restaurant industry, turning up the heat on fast feeders such as McDonald's and the segment known as casual dining, which includes such now ho-hum fern joints as Bennigan's that serve mere food and drink in a relaxed setting. This heady expansion leads to projections that eatertainment will be a $5 billion baby by the turn...
...course on Russia, was titled "Why Bush Lost." Actually, the parallels were eerie. George Bush's complacency almost exactly resembled Yeltsin's. Like Bush's, the Yeltsin team thought the nation's economy was improving and that the President would receive credit for it; in fact, only a small segment of the population enjoys whatever progress there has been. Like Bush, Yeltsin simply refused to believe that the voters would elect his opponent. Like Bush's, the Yeltsin campaign was in disarray as factions fought for control. And also as with Bush, there was no clearly focused Yeltsin message, just...
Bollenbach agrees. But he points out that much of the new construction is in the small, limited-service-hotel segment of the business. He likes Hilton's location just fine--and he can always get a room...
...alcohol years ago, Ada thinks he's held on to his old way of thinking, except that now he blames the government and the New World Order. By the early '80s, Ralph was railing against high mortgage rates and unfair foreclosures, and in 1982 he appeared on a 20/20 segment with Geraldo Rivera...