Word: spanned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Usually they are designed on aides' computers, then taken to the Senate Service Department or House Information Systems office, where they are printed out and blown up in order to be C-SPAN-ready. Costs on the House side run from $60 to $110 a chart, at taxpayer expense. For simpler enlargements, staff members or congressional offices occasionally turn to the local Kinko's, two blocks away from the Capitol and open 24 hours...
Over the year, Marsden said, he was able to further refine his calculations until he was able to narrow down the span of the event to within a few minutes...
...server and loaded it with thousands of dollars' worth of stolen software - like Power Japanese (retail: $395) and the unreleased game Alien Legacy - the L.A. Times found. But if these pirate locations are so secret, how do Net users ever find them? Through Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channels that span the Net and elude all but the most determined federal investigators...
America has a strange taste in atrocities and an elastic attention span for them. The 10,000 African children who die each day of starvation can hardly cop a headline, but Tonya and Nancy held our fascination for weeks. Some see O.J. Simpson as a hero, not guilty by reason of celebrity. Others want him to be unmasked as a villain, if only because it solves this riveting murder mystery. Until a jury determines his fate, he is neither. He is a minor pop star -- a onetime running back, a rental-car salesman, a modestly gifted actor -- in big trouble...
Though he likes to swim and is addicted to C-SPAN, Panetta stays close to his hardscrabble roots -- literally. He tries to get back to California twice a month, where his idea of relaxing is to climb onto his Ford tractor and work the ground on his family's 11-acre walnut ranch in the Carmel Valley. "He gets unspeakably cranky if he doesn't get back regularly," said an associate, who joked that aides have taken up inner-office collections for airfare when Panetta has been in Washington too long...