Word: span
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...superpowers. Rademaekers talked with idealistic youths in and out of the peace movements; with members of the postwar generation coming to positions of influence in business, politics and teaching; and with government leaders who were apprehensive about the drift to pacifism and neutralism in their countries. "In the span of a year," says Rademaekers, "they have emerged as a powerful lobbying force." The challenge of the peace movements and the responses of the Reagan Administration and the Soviet leadership are the subject of this week's cover story in the World section and also of the Nation section...
Bobby Hackett, the individual most associated with Harvard's rise to Eastern swimming dominance in the short span of four years, was graduated last June with senior standouts Geoff Seelan and Mike Coglin...
Despite limiting the nation's fifth-leading rusher, Rich Diana, to under 100 yards and moving the ball on the vaunted Eli defense, Harvard was unable to score on Yale for the second consecutive year. The bulldogs punched over 14 points in a span of 79 seconds early in the game and held on to beat the gridders for the 54th time in the 98-year history of The Game (eight games have been tied...
Szaro--an economics major who later started for the Saints over a span of nearly a decade and is now an international trading consultant--contends that competing in the Ivy League did not and should not hinder an athlete's progress. "You don't need a locomotive to run into you to be good. I wouldn't be a better football player if I went to another school. I feel that individual development from a school like Harvard can be as good as if you came from U.C.L.A., Notre Dame or Michigan...
...Presidential Suite" on board 26000 ("The diplomatic way out," joked Haig). Irony flashed through the minds of the arrangers. Two cabins behind Haig would ride Nixon and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, for whom Haig had worked as a lesser aide. Such is the span of fleeting power...