Word: segmented
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What is driving Driver's Mart and the others is in part a desire to Simonize a business stained by imputations of high-pressure tactics and low-rent ethics. The bigger reason is profits. The used-car trade is now the fastest-growing segment of the automobile market, largely because of consumer resistance to rising new-car prices and the brisk turnover in the booming car-leasing business, which accounts for 32% of all new-vehicle transactions. About six of every 10 cars and trucks sold nowadays are secondhand, and given the deep discounting of automakers on pristine models...
Wigand's formerly low profile was blown sky-high in November, during a controversy over CBS' 60 Minutes' cutting back a segment on cigarettes because of fear of legal retaliation. Wigand was revealed to be CBS' Deep Throat, and B&W immediately slapped him with a lawsuit charging theft, fraud and breach of contract, stemming from a confidentiality agreement he had signed when he left B&W in 1993. Wigand nevertheless gave his Mississippi deposition. After somebody leaked a copy of his testimony to the Wall Street Journal, which published key excerpts and lofted the entire document onto the World...
Allowing departmental bypasses would make the new and improved Core more palatable to students by addressing a fundamental characteristic of Harvard undergraduates (or at least the vocal segment thereof): We resent being told what...
Seventy-five percent of Americans oppose racial preferences and two-thirds want to "change" affirmative action programs, according to a 1995 Washington Post/ABC poll. U.S. News and World Report found that 51 percent of whites say equal rights have been pushed too far. Likewise, Littlejohn says a segment of the majority population still needs to be convinced of the "business case...
Despite an ending sensational enough to become a segment...