Word: lifespan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even apart from the hedonistic excess sometimes associated with fame and fortune, there seems in many cases to be a certain finite lifespan of public popularity due to achievement, irrespective of the behavior of the successful party. The vilified purple dinosaur, after all, has never been caught with a stash of illegal drugs, firearms or prostitutes, and indeed did nothing more offensive than continue to preach his universal message of goodwill. The Bulls, who we are so pleased to see falling in the standings, are guilty only of playing excellent basketball for many years...
...this incarnation had a limited lifespan...
Cantor says his research has shown that a cancer cell's lifespan may be increased by binding with osteopontin. Since osteopontin is in motion, its binding moves cancer cells throughout the body, allowing it to metastasize--creating secondary cancer tumors, which make the disease more difficult to treat...
Maisie Houghton described the span of the couple's professional lives as "the lifespan of the women's movement...
Mice with transplanted cells who lived over eight months, the mouse's usual lifespan, showed a dramatic absence of pathology in their brains, suggesting a permanent cure without additional abnormalities, said Wolfe...