Word: segments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...TIME/CNN poll conducted last Friday by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, 78% of 200 blacks questioned, and 79% of 798 whites, said they thought before the verdict that the policemen would be found guilty. On many other questions, a majority or plurality of one race agreed with a much larger segment of the other: 62% of whites, but 92% of blacks, thought they would have voted to convict if they had been on the jury. The riots that followed were condemned as completely unjustified by 63% of whites and 42% of the blacks; an additional 20% of blacks and 14% of whites...
...satisfy the demands of businessmen, including blacks, who can return the favor with campaign contributions. It is far more difficult to devise remedies for the problems of members of the underclass, who lack the savvy and organization to make their voices heard. Says Atlanta Congressman John Lewis: "A segment of black leadership has gotten so wrapped up in dealmaking that they've forgotten the people who elected them...
Between this Scylla and Charybdis, mirror designers are charting a variety of bold, new courses. By designing the Keck Telescope mirror as a mosaic of small segments, each the size of a dining-room table, astronomer Jerry Nelson of the University of California, Berkeley was able to make his mirrors both rigid and thin. But to provide images of pinprick sharpness, each segment must be kept perfectly aligned with its neighbors, a task handled by an elaborate electronic network...
...doing a story this week... of the battle between Russell Seitz and General Electric," said Jeff Fager, producer of the segment for 60 Minutes...
...formalizes the primitive newspaper gossip column into a ceremony and a sacrament. The Archpriestess Barbara Walters comes with producer and camera crew to hear confession. She is empowered to grant absolution on behalf of the American people, playing first Inquisitor, then Fairy Godmother in the space of a segment. There are other clergy: the Archpriestess Diane Sawyer, the Archpriestess Oprah Winfrey. Credible Cardinal of High Policy and Emergency Confessions (" . . . better come clean, call Nightline") is Ted Koppel. Then there is His Grace Phil Donahue, the barking, mike-ready Bishop of Prurience, whose vestment for one of his shows was actually...