Word: segmenting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...problem by devising new schemes of faculty advising. These efforts almost uniformly fail, since many professors are too preoccupied with their teaching and research to give more than perfunctory advice. Moreover, such schemes are seriously limited by the fact that the adviser is usually familiar with only a small segment of the curriculum...
Harvard held its largest lead in the first half after 7 minutes of play, opening up a 12-1 margin. When Columbia began hitting it was able to cut the Crimson margin to 25-19 at the half. Harvard committed 12 turnovers during the first segment of the game...
...ROTC program, and other connections between the University and war-related activities, administrators walked a fine line of distinctions and differentiations in seeking to reach a satisfactory balance of demands. The wheels of bureaucracy move with excruciating tardiness, and this bureaucracy could not move fast enough to satisfy one segment of SDS. Although the group as a whole had voted to take no such action, a fraction of those in attendance at a SDS meeting on April 8, 1969, decided to occupy a building the next day. Shortly before noon on April 10, they did so, ejecting the deans...
...Pittsfield Mayor Donald Butler, but it also needles him frequently. Butler responds with periodic threats that he will refuse to talk to Eagle reporters. An attempt last year to give the community a conservative newspaper failed after six months. "The Eagle doesn't speak for the middle segment of American society because it doesn't understand us," says Leon Phelps, who edited the short-lived competitor. Under-35 readers complain about the Eagle's refusal to advertise or review X-rated films. The paper also refuses to abandon male-female distinctions in its help wanted...
...talks begin again, without the hoped-for "good will" on the part of the North? Presumably, Nixon will be in an even more uncomfortable position than he was before the bombing. He will have gained nothing but the renewed mistrust of many European statesmen as well as a large segment of the American public. Having so dramatically expressed his dissatisfaction with the current demands of the North, like their insistence on tying the fate of American prisoners together with that of political prisoners in the South, it would be doubly difficult now to turn around and accede to any more...