Word: spanned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mather-Dunster defense, which had been reliable for the span of the game, once again tightened up and halted apossibly devastating drive, forcing Winthrop to relinquish the ball with 54 seconds remaining in the game...
THESE PROBLEMS have been exacerbated by internal bickerings in the government. After 112 days a government has been formed at last, but its life-span is predicted to be brief. Queen Beatrice called for unity and compromise when she opened Parliament on September 15, but the members of the coalition cabinet were already at one another's throats. The government was created only on the condition that certain issues would not even be discussed, let alone resolved. One such issue is the placement of nuclear weapons in Europe. While the majority party, the CDA, favors Reagan's plans...
...disputes for the real reasons for Crawford's mistreatment of her daughter. When the scenes roll around in which Joan is nice to her daughter, we are only further confused. The relationship between Christina and Joan is shown through a series of vignettes which take place over a span of 30 years, but these scenes are only loosely strung together. They argue here, they argue there, time passes and no conclusions are reached. Mommie Dearest, while attempting to pass itself off as a serious documentary, is little more than a limp soap opera...
...male lets out a cry that sounds like a rake being scraped over cement. He flaps his wings-which span 9 ft.-at a bird only another condor could love: an ungainly, 20-lb. female, with lugubrious black feathers, yellow eyes and a bald, orange head. She coyly nibbles at his neck, and off they fly, monogamous partners for life. They will produce a single 4½-in. egg every two years, and their ugly infant will be dependent upon them for a year-or until he is old enough to find carrion for himself...
...finance the construction of a $64 million hydroelectric project, housing, and a $2.3 million alcohol distillery. The tiny island state of St. Lucia (pop. 120,000) has opened a $400,000 asphalt plant, courtesy of Caracas. In Panama, officials are planning to erect a $100 million bridge to span the canal-with Venezuelan backing. An estimated $100 million in Venezuelan money has flowed into embattled El Salvador to prop up the civilian-military government headed by Christian Democratic President José Napoleón Duarte, who spent seven years of exile in Venezuela. Even the right-wing regime of Guatemalan...