Word: spanned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When we signed this bill, Dean Lewis was the first dean ever to agree to give the U.C. a fairly significant amount of political capital," said Nelson, who is a Crimson editor. "But I think if the bill is going to have significant life span, then its provisions have to be treated by the council with more responsibility...
...watching America go down the tubes. So what can we do during those 1,455 or so days when we're not voting? Work on a political campaign? Perhaps. But I think there are plenty of more direct ways of helping in the meantime, in that forgotten span of time between one set of PAC-and corporation-backed campaigns and ghost-written speeches and the next...
...life-span of Americans is increasing, and because the disease most often strikes men who are in their 60s or 70s, more of them are now afflicted. When the baby-boom generation matures, the number will balloon. "As men live longer and do not succumb to heart disease and stroke, more will die from prostate cancer," says Dr. William Catalona, a urologist at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. "And it is not a nice death...
...President. "What did the organization think they were getting when they invited Imus? I fault them," said Tom Brokaw. abc's Jackie Judd, one of the dinner's organizers, said, "We wanted some discomfort, but not that much." After the show, White House press secretary Michael McCurry called C-SPAN to ask that it not re-air the event. In a press release C-SPAN countered that the public had a right to see "what all this fuss is about." abc's Cokie Roberts, an Imus regular, said, "He always separates his raunchiness from the political part of his show...
...because he could attract voters put off by the outspoken Texan. But Perot himself could be the biggest obstacle to Weicker's nomination. Last January Perot and Weicker met in Washington and it appeared the chemistry between them was not great. Perot was asked in an interview with C-Span on Sunday about a potential Weicker candidacy: "Well, that's certainly his prerogative and I haven't heard that, but we want to attract the finest people in the country." Along with Weicker and Perot, other potential third- party candidates include consumer-advocate Ralph Nader and conservative commentator Pat Buchanan...