Word: spanned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson (9-7-1 overall, 7-2-1 ECAC) dominated the action throughout, and if it weren't for a twenty-second span during the third period would have left the arena with a shutout...
...female red deer, since 1989 the oldest of her species known to man, according to the Guinness Book of World Records; put down after a stroke; near Inverness, Scotland. John and Nancy Fraser, who cared for Bambi at the guesthouse they own, attributed her longevity--almost twice the life span of the average deer--to tender care and a diet of sugar beets, flaked maize and chocolate biscuits...
...State Department accused Russia and China of persistent human rights abuses. In its 17th annual human rights report to Congress, the department said "human rights violations span the globe, and no region has a monopoly on abuses." Nonetheless, Russia was singled out for its prolonged and fierce suppression of the rebellion in Chechnya, then slammed for President Boris Yeltsin's failure to prevent arbitary arrests and illegal searches. China drew fire as "an authoritarian state" that tortured political prisoners and waged a war of repression in neighboring Tibet. The verdicts come amid conflicting signals within the Clinton Adminsitration, including...
...Waller was holding court behind its doors. But the writer whom 1,300 had come to greet was JIMMY CARTER, author of Always a Reckoning, his first collection of poetry. Seeking the creative fulfillment that military service could not provide, Carter turned to verse in the Navy. The poems span the full range from folksy to sentimental; one reads, "It's hard to know what I can say ... to have the coolness melt/ To share once more/ The warmth we've felt...
...role that for-profit cable networks -- PBS's competitors -- have played in providing a platform for Gingrich's attacks: the new House Speaker has his own show on National Empowerment Television, a conservative cable network, and was recently inveighing against the CPB in an hourlong interview on C-SPAN. Moyers expressed suspicion of "publicly supported politicians in the service of a commercial industry that, frankly, would like to see public television not exist...