Word: segments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...smooth the pockets of fat, dubbed cellulite by cosmetologists, that dimple many women's hips and thighs. Thanks to the aging of the baby boomers, U.S. sales of skin- care products have surged more than 50% since 1985, to $3.7 billion a year. That makes them the fastest-growing segment of the toiletries and cosmetics industry, which rakes in almost $24 billion annually...
Teri Copley, who once played a blond airhead on the sitcom We Got It Made, isn't exactly a high-profile Hollywood celebrity these days. Still, she had plenty to say on a recent segment of the Maury Povich Show. Povich's subject was the dumb-blond stereotype. Teri was against it. "I get the feeling," said Maury, pondering one of her more heartfelt comments, "that you're into self-awareness big time...
Beckel will do anything to attract viewers--especially young ones bored by the cynical, faux-academic caterwauling of a Sam Donaldson or a Pat Buchanan. He peppers the short news reviews in the show with pop music. One show dumped hard news to offer a segment on the new lost generation--the "twentysomethings...
...breweries weren't interested in selling it. How long ago that now seems. The turning point came when two of America's top brewers, Miller and Anheuser-Busch, went looking for an area of growth in the shrinking beer market and found big-time potential in the nonalcoholic segment. Now it appears as if half the shelf space in the supermarket beverage section is filled with a score or more of nonalcoholic brand names, many of them a substantial taste improvement over the pioneers of yore. Miller has sold 5.5 million cases of its Sharp's brand, after just...
Better medical treatment and health education for African Americans could reduce the black-white mortality gap by an estimated 60%. "We have a whole segment of our population dying unnecessarily, and we're worried about whether to eat oat-bran or wheat-bran muffins," fumes Dr. David Ansell, director of ambulatory screening at Chicago's Cook County Hospital. "It's the medical equivalent of Marie Antoinette's saying 'Let them eat cake...