Word: segmented
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Other lawyers were less impressed. For one thing, the A.B.A. represents less than half the nation's lawyers. For another, the A.B.A. panel is dominated by a narrow segment of successful lawyers who have never turned down any Supreme Court nominee. The panel approved both Haynsworth and Carswell, even after damaging evidence against them had been turned up by other groups. While the committee might block political hacks, scholars fear that it would favor technically qualified judges at the expense of creative or unconventional men needed to leaven the high court. Walsh acknowledged that the screening process will almost...
...only were the demands weak, but a large segment of the community noted that the middle-class blacks and whites who had long made NAACP so weak were the "spokesmen" the mayor heard...
...conceived and arranged. But those who attended came in an effort to listen, and to help the Black Panthers-as they would help any group-to secure the due process of law to which they are entitled. They were trying to open a dialogue with an almost totally alienated segment of the community...
...love the common people, but unfortunately a sizable segment of the nation's population has been feeling exceptionally common and dangerously unloved. Last week the White House studied a confidential Government report on the discontent, disappointment and disaffection of the large and potentially volatile lower middle class...
Worse, the most crime-prone segment of the population?poor urban youths aged 15 to 24?will increase disproportionately at least until 1975. Sheer demography adds a racial factor: half the nation's blacks are under 21. Though victims of black crime are overwhelmingly black, it is chiefly young black males who commit the most common interracial crime: armed robbery...