Word: segments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scientific evidence that an ancient curse has settled over the hallways of NBC News, but staff members at the network's newsmagazine show Dateline could be forgiven for thinking otherwise. After last February's embarrassment of having to apologize -- on air -- for faking a fire in a segment on General Motors truck safety, they endured a public pillorying that led to the resignation of NBC News president Michael Gartner and three Dateline producers. Hope was widespread at the network that the arrival of new president Andrew Lack and a complete review of the show's reportorial methods would...
...that the man who built Fox-TV will use such a + network to combine shopping and entertainment. They envision the channel, dubbed Best TV by company executives, running, say, an hour of country-music videos featuring C.-and-W. stars like Clint Black and Garth Brooks, followed by a segment devoted to selling cowboy boots and other Western-style apparel. But Diller is not yet totally convinced that such synergy exists. "You won't see dancing and singing toasters...
...small cars for the budget-minded have been moving off the lots. Following the lead of GM's Saturn, whose sales have risen 25% this year, American manufacturers have continued to offer autos in the $9,000- to-$12,000 price range long after Japanese carmakers virtually abandoned the segment. In that thrifty category, sales of Chevrolet's vintage Cavalier have risen 26%, while those of the Plymouth Colt and Dodge Spirit...
...geographic integrity. Not so the North Carolina 12th. The meandering serpent represents not just an attempt to concentrate black voters but also a bit of traditional gerrymandering, as the Democratic state legislature strove to avoid siphoning away too many black Democrats from incumbents in adjoining districts. The resulting line segment cleaves so closely to the Interstate that state representative Mickey Michaux, who is black, jokes, "You could drive down I-85 with both doors open and kill everybody in the district." Alive and voting last year, they put Mel Watt, a black Democrat, in Congress...
...White House gave up its naive notion that Clinton might establish personal rapport with Perot. For the President to attack him frontally is also futile. So the Clinton circle is studying Perot's constituency with extensive polling and focus groups, looking for ways to win over a large segment of it. The main conclusion: only when Clinton demonstrates that he can lower the deficit and genuinely reform government will he get a hearing from Perot's minions...