Word: segmenting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Voting 238 to 192, the House passed a crime bill tonight that could derail President Clinton's plan to hire more police nationwide. The president has said that he would veto such a bill. The sixth and final segment of the GOP's anti-crime package replaces crime prevention programs and funds tied to localities increasing their police force -- two key components of the 1994 anti-crime law -- with a flexible block grant. But the measure faces an uphill fight in the Senate. Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) said that the Senate would have to come up with a single...
During my four years here on campus I have run into this mentality quite a bit. Many students at Harvard simply want to fold each segment of the campus away into a nice little box and then hate or praise each box according to their own prejudices. One of the most maligned boxes is "Republicanism," and according to what people say about that box, it should be subtitled "Pandora...
Showtime shot a behind-the-scenes segment at the Hasty Pud-ding's Theater on Saturday, attracting substantial crowds to the Holyoke Street building...
...people appear on these shows? Jerry Springer is as baffled as anyone. He tells of a segment involving a woman who came home and found her husband in bed with her aunt. "It was bad enough that it happened," Springer says, "but they were all there talking about it on national TV! It's hard to see why people do this, but they do." The shows find their guests with newspaper and magazine ads and toll-free numbers flashed onscreen. There is even a National Talk Show Guest Registry, a data base used by many talk shows that lists...
...video taken at Petawawa shows soldiers urinating on recruits, along with scenes of simulated masturbation and oral sex. The black recruit seen crawling on all fours is depicted in another segment tied to a tree while a substance that looks like dirt is being dumped on his head. The tape from Somalia shows a soldier standing in front of a police station at Belet Huen and responding with a grin to questions about the peacekeepers' role in helping starving Somali children. ``There's no one starving here, O.K.?'' the trooper replies. ``This is where 150 people hang...