Word: segments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...criteria are very flexible," he said. "We look mainly at two things, the contributions that the grant would make to the Harvard community and whether the group needs the money. So, we do favor campus-wide activities rather than those that benefit a segment of the University...
...court invalidated a Texas law barring illegal aliens from public schools, holding that "penalizing the child is an ineffectual -- as well as unjust -- way of deterring the parent." Even the dissenting opinion acknowledged that "it would be folly -- and wrong -- to tolerate the creation of a segment of society made up of illiterate persons." But the decision split 5 to 4, and the ballot measure's proponents are hoping a new court will reopen the issue...
...first segment of her video, "Starstruck," addresses the particular hold that certain celebrities have upon our culture. The segment is highly autobiographical. For several years, Braderman was severely ill with colitis at the same time that her close friend, Leland, was dying of AIDS. For both of them, watching television and classic films served as therapy. As Braderman says, "movie stars dominated our mental life, images became medicine" as they were set free in a "world without sick bodies...
...this segment, she also portrays Leland's life-long fascination with Elizabeth Taylor. Presenting news clips in which Liz' many illnesses, marriages, and weight fluctuations are treated with the gravity of national emergencies, she shows that the American public, as well as Leland, avidly follows Taylor's life...
...fair to force one small segment of the population to subsidize [tenants]?" she asked. "Is it fair that small property owners be prevented from living on their own property...