Word: span
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...illiteracy have both been estimated at 30 percent of the population. In the capital city, Port as Prince, the average annual income is $275 a year, in the rural areas the figure falls below $135 a year. The infant mortality rate is 30 percent, and the average Haitian life span is 52 years. Amidst this squalor, Duvalier spent more than $1 million on his 1980 marriage ceremony...
...Barrett's methods and definitions. It also offers a dictionary of terms, a Who's Who, and a comprehensive list of names and addresses of religious agencies under 76 categories. Interspersed with all that are 31 tables of global statistics, some of which cover a time span from A.D. 30 to the year 2000. Here one can discover, for instance, the number of literate and nonliterate Christians in eight regions of the world or the fact that fully 605 million Christians must currently struggle against political restrictions on their religious freedom. Nearly two-thirds of the book consists...
...first six seasons this slugger led his league in every offensive category except walks and triples. Over this six year span he averaged over 200 hits. 115 runs, 120 RBIs a season and batted 359, better than any other player in history over this same time span. Yet he is not in the Hall of Fame. You've got 10 points for his name and five more if you can name what other records he holds...
...Pennsylvania. The job of assembling, measuring, framing, cataloguing, shipping and overseeing the mounting of all this art went to the acknowledged curator of TIME's art collection, Covers Researcher Rosemary L. Frank. "This was an especially difficult job," says Frank, "because the show ranged over such a span of years. In the old days, TIME often gave the cover portrait to the subject, or let the artist keep it. We had to locate and borrow back many covers, such as Roy Campanella's and Shirley Booth's. It added up to quite a search mission...
...Harvard always endures. University officials fully realize this maxim of Harvard politics, and use it to their advantage in devising "problem-solving" strategies. Those critics who attempt to force change on the University thus face the formidable task of achieving reform in a perilously short time span...