Word: spanned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dropped 27%. Certainly women are more time-pressed than they were even a few years ago, and they are spending more of their spare time with cable TV and talk shows. But it could also be that their soap opera needs are being met elsewhere: not just on C-SPAN and Jerry Springer but on most nighttime dramas (and many sitcoms too), which now feature ongoing, relationship-focused story lines with will-they-or-won't-they cliff-hangers but, happily, very few incidents of amnesia...
...years since his suicide on July 2, 1961, Ernest Hemingway has had more books come out under his name than he managed to turn out during the last two decades of his life. Over that latter span, he published only Across the River and Into the Trees (1950) and The Old Man and the Sea (1952). Thanks to the piles of manuscripts, in varying stages of completion, that he left behind for his estate to ponder, four new Hemingways appeared after his death: A Moveable Feast (1964), Islands in the Stream (1970), The Dangerous Summer (1985) and The Garden...
Some educational programs for women are also run by academic departments, such as Women in Philosophy. Others span disciplines, such as Women in Science at Harvard and Radcliffe (WISHR) and Women in Economics and Government...
...creating a huge structure in honor of one fleeting moment. To believe that one single moment in time is more significant than those that came before or will come after it is to ignore that basic principle that history is a trajectory made up of countless events over a span of time...
...Jesse took advantage of [King's death] to propel himself into the limelight. There is an egomania that remains about him," she said in an interview with C-SPAN...