Word: segments
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...know, I know. The mere mention of such establishments incites spasms of head-shaking and jowl-flapping among a certain hoary, wheezing segment of the Harvard and Cambridge community. The sticks-in-the-mud dredge up the same tired claim that bringing in large, proven businesses will sully the Harvard Square charm, that they will stain the Harvard University image...
Matthews began another Hardball segment by attempting to induce Ventura to elaborate on comments he made about the assassination of John F. Kennedy...
Certainly, sports-writing can tend to be melodramatic. But how the Ryder Cup has managed to galvanize such a large segment of the American populace--the event was front page news across the country--is beyond me. According to NBC, a record 55 million viewers tuned in to watch the trans-Atlantic battle of our country clubs' finest. Add to that the 30,000 fans who gathered a dozen-deep to wave and cheer America...
...extensive survey which follows a small segment of the population through interviews over many years to provide a generational snapshot...
Bush referred to groups as "faith-based institutions," perhaps because "religious charities" seems too close to "religious right," a voting segment that Bush would like to win without public wooing. But his choice of words cannot veil the fact that the proposal would represent a philosophical retreat, not only from the small-government rhetoric of the 1994 Republican Revolution, but also from the modern social compact that America has developed since the New Deal. Handing off some of the government's programs to religious charities would not only endanger the programs but would handicap the charities and abdicate social responsibility...