Word: spanned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ritually disposing of the President every four years or less. The pat tern need not be inevitable, but in moments of depression, Americans may imagine that the procession of somehow foreshortened presidential terms makes the U.S. like the late Roman Empire: an ungovernable mess with a short attention span, restlessly chucking its leaders...
...asked for a reduction of his position at Berkeley to adjunct professor so that he could spend more time with the biotechnological company he had just founded. Penhoet will lose his tenure and have his salary cut, but he says he wants to decrease his involvement on campus to "span the two worlds." It is not possible to surround a university with a most," he says, adding that interaction between universities and industry is vital to the development of science...
...CSIA would probably fall somewhere in the middle of Sherwin's two categories, perhaps a little closer to the "critical" side. While Doty maintains that the center "definitely has an arms control bias" and is "a bit more to the left of things," scholars at the CSIA generally span the ideological spectrum on nuclear issues...
Officials stressed that summer's project was regarded as "a learning process", with delays like the one this month instructive in the long run because the renovations of the entire House system will span about seven years...
...according to a study by Dr. Joel Ehrenkranz, a resident in internal medicine at New York's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. Looking for a relationship between human breeding habits and the effects of seasonal light on the pituitary and pineal glands, Ehrenkranz spent portions of a five-year span measuring the hormone levels of Eskimos in Labrador. Birth records of two Eskimo communities dating back to 1778 showed a sharp increase in births in March. This confirmed Ehrenkranz's observations that secretions from these glands had changed dramatically by the long days of June-exactly nine months before...