Word: span
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...such improvements. Although the massive system would cost $55 billion to replace, only $300 million a year is being spent on rehabilitation and improvement, $700 million short of what experts say is needed. The Reagan focus on capital improvements may come just in time. Although the accepted life span of a subway car is 35 years, 567 of the MTA'S 8,500 cars are more than 30 years old. About a quarter of them are out of service at any given time for maintenance. Soon after shiny new cars were introduced, they had to be withdrawn when they...
...each crime that creates those statistics there is a victim whose life has been ended, painfully altered or traumatically affected. No sampling can span the full range of outrage or reflect all the victims' agony, but here are some examples...
...minor role in Olsen's novella. Joyce Eliason and Alex Lytie, authors of the screenplay, developed the granddaughter's character fully, allowing her to unearth Eva's "other" personality: that of a casual, free-spirited, and highly intellectual woman. The authors successfully show the mutual infatuation of relationships that span generations...
Pete becomes a cocaine dealer, topping off a family involved with gangsters, sleazy dancehalls, and sex, and American Pop slips and slides into the ooze as Pete sings a medley of "Blue Suede Shoes/Devil with the Blue Dress/crazy on you," trying to span three decades but making no sense. Why these songs? Why have all the other characters lip-synch or listen to original recordings, but now inject a studio band's tepid interpretation...
That the music of the Beaux Arts Trio always sounds original and never tired is a tribute to their endless devotion and energy for in the span of over 4000 concerts, they have played every piece in their repertoire many hundreds of times. Still, the trio rehearses before every concert, always listening for new interpretations, discovering new relationships with the music. "Rehearsals are the only time we ever have a divergence of ideas," says Greenhouse. "Occasionally it may get a little tense, especially when one person really tries to push his ideas on the others." On stage, he explains, there...