Word: segmental
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...retarded rate of growth from which America is suffering, and the long-term results of the strong cyclical fluctuations of the economy since the War, have hurt labor more than any other segment of the economy. Indeed, the overwhelming problem of the economy is the residual unemployment these developments have caused. Very distressing is the fact that the crisis is most acute among the groups newly entering the labor market; the problem could be called Creeping Unemployment...
...Stack and his group started all over again. They finally designed an odd-looking airplane with unusually wide, thick fixed wing roots. Only the outer segment of the wing is movable. On take-off the wingtips are extended, and since they, too, are fairly thick, they give plenty of lift, allowing the plane to take off at slow speeds. As speed increases, the wingtips are slanted farther and farther backward...
...baroque, a man dedicated to the proposition that scarcely any music worth listening to was written after 1828, the year Schubert died. After him, practically no composers were able to write decent "barococo" music, and the public had to settle for "nobodies like Berlioz and Brahms." Today, a segment of the public has also settled, quite happily, for De Koven. A self-appointed authority of magnificent self-assurance ("All FM has improved because of my blustering, bullying dogmatism"), he has built a radio following so loyal that it pays for a large slice of his air time...
...tieing off of irregular arterial vessels is likely to lead to infarction (destruction through lack of oxygenated blood) or atrophy (malfunction through an insufficient arterial blood supply of a segment of the kidney, proportional to the diameter of the artery involved, as there are no intra-renal capallary by-passes present in the organ...
Dean von Stade, who hopes to live in Kirkland House next year, said, "I had a wonderful time doing it in 1951, and I hope I will again. He said he felt the temporary 1951 appointment had given him "a valuable opportunity to meet the segment of the faculty associated with Kirkland House...