Word: span
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think [about] how fast the mind can move us, the way the story is a span of light across space," says Billy Bathgate, the 15-year-old gangster apprentice who is the title character of E.L. Doctorow's newest work. And appropriately for a novel that mellifluously combines historical fact and invention, Billy Bathgate is itself a transporting medium...
...third period got off to a raucous start with the Crimson scoring four goals in a span of less than five minutes, although two of them were called back. A goal at 21 seconds into the period was disallowed because the officials ruled that Tri-Captain Brita Lind kicked the puck. Lind wasted no time griping, however. She scored a legal goal two minutes later off a deflection of freshman Bev Stickles' shot...
Junior C.J. Young plays like a one-man team--Young nets three short-handed goals in a 48-second span and finishes with five tallies...
Statistics show steep declines in science concentrators. From 1983 to 1987 (when the total number of under-graduates remained almost constant), the number of biochemistry concentrators dropped from 300 to 212. In that same span, the number of chemistry concentrators fell from 93 to 74. And from 1985 to 1987, the number of biology concentrators went from 432 to 340. These amount to 20 to 30 percent drops in laboratory science concentrators...
...fierce lobbying brawl. On one side stand the influential but unorganized advocates of the gas-tax increase, who range from Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan to Illinois Democrat Dan Rostenkowski, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. They argue that a gas-tax boost -- the proposals span from about 7 cents per gal. to 50 cents -- would be simple to administer and would bring a gusher of new revenues. As fringe benefits, the tax would help the environment and the U.S. trade position...