Word: segmented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...THAN riches," said Cervantes. O.J. Simpson, however, isn't doing well on either score. He has not only seen his reputation trashed in the past few months but also depleted his fortune trying to defend it. Now, although he was cleared by a jury of his peers, a huge segment of the American public--most of it white--remains incredulous about the not-guilty verdict he received and downright hostile to his attempts to re-enter society. Nonetheless, O.J. Simpson is a free man. He wants his good name back. And he wants his children returned...
Miller's own regular bits include jaunts to the ladies' room, where she bumps into surprise guests like Heidi Fleiss, who outfits her in new lingerie. In another recurring segment, Miller takes phone calls onstage from members of the studio audience, who are seen on a video monitor. The phone bits can be funny (a viewer revealed that she served her unsuspecting boyfriend a cat-food pie), but they would work just as well if Miller simply strolled down the aisles talking to guests the old-fashioned way. Least successful are Miller's opening monologues, which mimic those of countless...
...turned out to be from a wealthier segment of Chinese society, she said. After a half-hour attempt to convince her escort she was too ill to attend the afternoon art show they had planned, she said she gained some time to herself and visited peasants...
...upstart company can skim off the most profitable segment of a market by a providing services only to large companies. Just as cherrypicking insurance companies take advantage of more socially responsible guarantors of health care, "competitive access providers" will be undermining the community minded practices of regulated monopolies...
...Miss Montana, Amanda Granrude: "We shouldn't have women in a veiled strip show." Even Leonard Horn, who runs the Miss America Organization, says, "I personally cannot rationalize it." Eager to italicize the scholarship program that gives more than $24 million a year to contestants, Horn sees the swimsuit segment as a tacky relic of Miss America's childhood...