Word: segmenting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...persuade friends NAOMI CAMPBELL, Kate Moss and Yasmin Le Bon to wear her clothes in a student show for parents and industry types. Her collection, described by one critic as "part Penny Lane, part Rita, Meter Maid," must have satisfied the paparazzi, who stomped out as soon as her segment was over...
...article in the undergraduate yearbook dubbed student anti-war protesters "The New Radicals." At the time, they were a largely unknown segment of the student body...
...Senators because the public was thought to be insufficiently sophisticated to process it. But in fact voters seem quite capable of analyzing human frailties. After the initial wave of prurient interest in the Flowers revelations died down and Clinton made his contrite nondenial on 60 Minutes, a large segment of the public integrated this information into the picture they had of the candidate and decided to vote for him anyway. By contrast, Packwood pursued the Clarence Thomas strategy: deny everything and attack the credibility of your accuser. Worse, he may have tried to cover up evidence. Voters ended up feeling...
...advantage of the latest advances in digital compression, it delivers AM radio-quality sound in so-called real time. Click on an icon representing the show you want to hear, and you will hear it immediately, broadcast through your computer's speaker system. Or you can select a sound segment or a series of segments and listen to them in the order you choose. Onscreen buttons let you pause, rewind and fast-forward through a program...
...this is common stuff in many parts of the country. It is several giant steps from this movement to the extremist-fringe thinking that seems to have bred the Oklahoma City bombing. That frame of mind appeals to a hard-bitten and alienated segment of society that has found a voice lately in millennial movements like the Christian Patriots and the state "militias," largely in the Middle West and West. The militias may be--as they strongly claim to be-composed largely of yeoman states'--righters energized over the threat to the Second Amendment. But they have also fostered viciously...