Word: spanned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...same applies, apparently, to a punting team. The Harvard football team has taken advantage of its opponents' weakness up the middle to block four punts in the last two games, directly accounting for three of the Crimson's four touchdowns in that span...
...gaining urgency as the medium barges ever more aggressively into children's lives. Except for school and the family, no institution plays a bigger role in shaping American children. And no institution takes more heat. TV has been blamed for just about everything from a decrease in attention span to an increase in street crime. Cartoons are attacked for their violence and sitcoms for their foul language. Critics ranging from religious conservatives to consumer groups like Action for Children's Television have kept up a steady drumbeat of calls for reform...
...flimsy for many popular complaints about TV. In a 1988 report co-authored for the U.S. Department of Education, Daniel Anderson, professor of psychology at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, found no convincing evidence that TV has a "mesmerizing effect" on children, overstimulates them or reduces their attention span. In fact, the report asserted, TV may actually increase attention-focusing capabilities...
...barrage of three early goals in a 9:28 span against Stanford jolted the Crimson with a ringing wake-up call. Harvard pressured Stanford in the second half with crisp passing, yielding only one goal to the highly regarded Cardinal in the final 70 minutes for a 4-0 final margin. The revived Crimson (1-2-1 overall) then charged into the San Francisco match, ready for battle, and emerged with a 3-1 triumph...
...official, and his color since then has ranged "from gray to green, neither of which is good." Some who do business with Mitterrand note that his once imposing intellect and presence seem dulled, apparently by fatigue. He tires easily in meetings and seems to have a short attention span; during last month's economic summit in Houston, Mitterrand looked ill and missed about two hours of the proceedings...