Word: segments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...issue, it is pretty effective." Tony Kushner, author of the Pulitzer prize-winning play Angels in America, believes the film has strong lessons for the straight majority. "It tells them, If you are going to be a decent human being, you can't just casually despise a huge segment of the human race. And if you are going to address AIDS, you are going to have to address homophobia...
...most significant advance in Clinton management came when his aides carved out three hours of "private time" late each afternoon. During this unstructured segment, he can read, write, nap or hit the putting green on the South Lawn -- anything but go to meetings. Clinton aides talk about this invention in much the same way pediatricians talk about behavior incentives for three-year-olds. "It's like a reward at the end of the day," said an official, "for all the disciplined time he's put in. He feels very trapped here, and so you have to find ways to allow...
...need to be a seer to predict one of tonight's top stories on TV. Come hell or high water, there will be a segment on the attack on figure skater Nancy Kerrigan...
...Harvard ethics and mental health expertshave expressed shock and outrage that such testingwould occur on a vulnerable, segregated segment ofthe population. Students used in the experimentshave said repeatedly that they were not informedof the radiation involved in the tests...
...longer the rupture, the more powerful the expected quake. Unlike the San Andreas, the Elysian Park system is not large enough to unleash an earthquake of magnitude 8. But some scientists believe it might be capable of a 7 or even a 7.5, especially if more than one fault segment should give way at the same time. This is what happened in 1992, when the Landers earthquake hopscotched from one fault to another, in the process gathering enough power to push up a 6- ft.-high ridge of rock. Should the Elysian Park system, which snakes beneath downtown Los Angeles...