Word: segments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...aunts for serving as a go-between. "This wasn't a singular, aberrant event that we set out to sensationalize, and it wasn't our presence that caused the child physical jeopardy," says Steve Haworth, CNN vice president for public relations. When asked about the CNN segment, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak made the improbable statement that he thought the practice had disappeared in his country...
...segment of society is immune to the problem. The most famous youthful offenders of the '90s, Erik Menendez, at 19, of Beverly Hills, California, and Amy Fisher, at 17, of Merrick, Long Island, came from mostly white communities of nice houses. But it's in the inner cities where an interlocking universe of guns, gangs and the drug trade has made mayhem a career path for kids and equipped them with the means to do maximum damage along the way. Children ) involved in the drug trade get guns to defend themselves against older kids who want their money...
Irving gives his hero yet another reason for visiting India. Daruwalla is the secret screenwriter behind the Inspector Dhar movies, a wildly popular and controversial series featuring a sneering, tough-talking Western-style gumshoe. Every Dhar film offends some segment of Bombay's populace; the number of people who resent the main character has grown with each new release. Death threats have begun cropping up among the hate mail. The actor who plays Dhar bears a complicated and secret relationship to Daruwalla, and also has an identical twin, separated at birth, who knows nothing of his locally infamous brother...
...American Express is staking its future on a new set of credit cards with an accent on lowbrow utility and coupon-clipping value. This week it will begin to roll out some dozen cards, each one pitched at a different segment of the consumer market. Some cards will bear the exclusive imprimatur of AmEx and will boast waived fees; others will share billing with other companies that offer a range of enticements, like frequent-flyer miles and car discounts. All will offer revolving credit at rates expected to rival AmEx's less tony rivals. And where business travelers were once...
...greatest drawback to audio books, of course, is that they are usually heavily abridged. (Unabridged versions are available for many books, both in stores and through mail order, but they represent a relatively small segment of the market.) Most mass-market audio books are boiled down to a length of three to six hours. Even at a relatively brisk reading pace of a minute-and-a- half per page, that typically means more than half the author's prose is left on the cutting-room floor. Rather than tamper with the author's language, editors make an effort to select...