Word: spanned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Like a giant stung by bees, Gates looked slightly irritated throughout. He shrugged off charges of monopoly by declaring: "The products that Microsoft makes have a very short life span." He also tried his best to sound worried about the threat from Sun Microsystems, but Sun CEO Scott McNealy got far more sympathy for taking on the Redmond behemoth: "Would you go up against the most dangerous and powerful industrialist of our age?" he asked. The markets certainly wouldn't -- Microsoft stock was up three-eighths at the hearing's close...
...very late, only a couple of weeks before a complicated and dangerous foreign adventure was likely to begin. Clinton does it this way all the time, partly because he flutters and floats about his own course of action. He and his advisers assume the country has a short attention span and they can explain a clear choice and a timetable only when their own resolve becomes clear...
...former federal drug agent who brought back chain gangs and black-and-white-striped convict outfits. He's the man who blacked out all television for inmates except G-rated flicks, the Weather Channel, Newt Gingrich videos and (opponents of torture may want to look away here) C-SPAN. He put up a neon vacancy sign at the tent city--get it?--served ostrich meat and green bologna to save tax dollars and made the inmates wear that pink underwear to make it harder for them to smuggle it out and to humiliate them. Sales of pink boxer shorts...
...conference began with a keynote address by Jerry Yang, co-founder of Yahoo!, the popular Internet search engine. The speech was taped by C-SPAN and was presented live on the conference web site in Real Video...
...span of a week U.S. and British forces will be able to carry out about 1,000 air attacks--only a small percentage of the number launched during Desert Storm, and affecting a fraction of the potential targets available. But the U.S. is sure that its weapons and intelligence are much better this time. Pentagon sources tell TIME that U.S. warplanes patrolling the southern no-fly zone over the past three months have been practicing bombing runs on targets that top brass figured they might someday have to attack...