Word: spanned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard built a 5-1 lead early in the third of the first game, but Cornell tallied three times in a short time-span in the third before finally falling...
...rallied back from 3-2 and 4-3 deficits in the third and won the game on Geoff Lopatka's third goal of the game 15:58 into overtime. Skazyk stopped 20 of the 21 shots he faced after the Tigers scored three goals in a 2:45 span against Bandurski in the second period...
Generally, the track athlete's body can only hit one emotional high in a seven-day span, So after several rousing performances in Harvard's own Gordon Track Center-the women finishing second overall, the men capturing individual honors in the 1000 meters and the 55 meter dash-one week before the penultimate event of the collegiate track and field season, it was hardly a surprise that Sunday's respective ventures outside the Ivy League met with, well...
...Smith and John Malone were sitting in their respective offices last Tuesday, both watching the same show: a C-SPAN broadcast of the Federal Communications Commission hearing on cable-TV rates. Smith, the chairman of Bell Atlantic, was in his Arlington, Virginia, office; Malone, the boss of cable giant Tele-Communications Inc., was at TCI headquarters in Denver. Both executives were appalled as they watched the FCC announce a 7% reduction in cable rates, on top of a 10% rollback ordered last year. Malone immediately telephoned Smith. "Ray," Malone said in an emotionless voice, "this is a bigger hit than...
...those that Bennett lists, no doubt. But they are terribly out of focus. Traditional societies evolve virtues; experience over generations teaches them which virtues are necessary (honor, hospitality and modesty for the Bedouin, for example). A somewhat violent, highly mobile information-television society of short moral attention span, of merciless scrutiny of its role models and of crazed blasts of overstimulation tends to subside into a psychology of grievance and entitlement...