Word: segments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...urges on listeners his favorite futurists and management gurus, are the hallmarks of a man for whom it isn't enough to get people to do things his way. He needs them to see things his way too. But while Gingrich gained a following within a segment of the Republican Party, his message stalled with the larger electorate. Lately he's a one-man version of the helpless superpower. The Contract with America is a suspended agreement, and Gingrich has the kind of approval ratings only Timothy McVeigh can envy. It can't give Gingrich much comfort to recall that...
...singer Seal has always seemed to draw on his own private power source, so it should come as no surprise that his recent performance on MTV's acoustic showcase, Unplugged, was suffused with energy despite the de rigueur absence of electric guitars (the segment begins airing this week). But what is surprising is just how gracefully Seal took to the format. Tuneful, enigmatically romantic songs such as Kiss from a Rose blossomed under the scrutiny that a lower-volume set brings, and Seal's voice, charismatic and craggy, revealed new depths in the low-key format, especially on his climactic...
...same time, Gates acknowledged that the Internet and personal computers have only made contact with a small segment of the U.S. and world populations...
...singer Seal has always seemed to draw on his own private power source, so it should come as no surprise that his recent performance on MTV1s acoustic showcase, Unplugged, was suffused with energy despite the de rigueur absence of electric guitars (the segment begins airing this week). "What is surprising is just how gracefully Seal took to the format," notes TIME's Christopher John Farley. "Tuneful, enigmatically romantic songs such as 'Kiss from a Rose' blossomed under the scrutiny that a lower-volume set brings, and Seal1s voice, charismatic and craggy, revealed new depths in the low-key format, especially...
...White House home page had a nifty feature allowing netizens to search an archive of the President's Saturday radio addresses. It was simple: type in a keyword--say "Medicare"--and the index would produce a list of all his speeches addressing that issue, even playing an audio segment of the speech cued to the subject. The easy-to-use index was a valuable resource. Maybe too valuable. Concerned that it might be used by political enemies for "opposition research," jittery Administration officials yanked the index and the audio in mid-April. Impassioned fans of the home page noticed...