Word: span
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...score three goats in a 45-minute span is not an amazing feat. But the Elis, who finished second in the Ivy League (5-1-1) in their best season (10-2-3) since a string of glory years in the last '50s, did it with only three shots in the final stanza...
Itaipu is a binational public work of truly pharaonic proportions. More than 640 ft. high, its concrete, earthwork and rock construction stretches for almost five miles across the 2,050-mile-long Paraná River, which divides Brazil and Paraguay. Its central concrete span alone stretches 4,059 ft., more than three-quarters of the entire length of the largest U.S. dam, the Grand Coulee. More than 15.6 million cu. yds. of cement went into the construction, enough to build eight medium-size Brazilian cities. The dam's 18 turbines, weighing 300 tons apiece, are so large that...
...tenants argued that the short span of time between the two projects indicated that the first job was only repair, not full scale improvement...
...compresses a great deal of melodramatic incident into a short span of time, and it is hard to escape the feeling that there is more here than any real adolescent may ever have to deal with. But that is an afterthought. While the picture is running, its casual naturalism, its refusal to force any single incident to its dramatic or comic limits, its accuracy of tone, texture and pitch keep one persuaded and involved. For a studio that has been trying to regain its grip on contemporary reality, for audiences that must by this time be jaded by the noisy...
What are the signs of addiction? According to Wilkins, there are some key clues. Do the children come straight home from school and turn on the TV? Do they watch more than ten hours a week? Is their concentration span divided into seven-minute segments, the usual time between commercials? Do they require instant gratification? Do they feel a closer kinship to Oscar the Grouch than to their own cantankerous Uncle Oscar? Are they video zombies, listless and lethargic while viewing, revved up like the roadsters on The Dukes of Hazzard when they are not? As for parents, many...