Word: spans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hearts of bookstore browsers, begins to grow dull. The humorous and whimsical passages begin to get lost in the voluminous survey of gnomelife. Does anybody really care how gnomes make candles or what they fill their little stomachs with at breakfast? Alas, like the book's subjects, attention span is short, and the reader begins to grow weary of Gnomes...
Surrealism was too volatile and too hard to define to be a system. As a viable "movement," it lasted from the end of the first World War to the end of the second-a span of nearly three decades. Like its ancestor Dada, surrealism was brought to term by young refugees in the cafes of neutral Zurich during World War I, in a clamor of theatrical high jinks, concrete-poetry recitals, chance-based collages and mock rituals. Surrealism became a common ground for bourgeois intellectuals agonized by the futility of their expected social roles. But it smacks of artificiality...
...plant and equipment, adjusted for inflation, must rise 7% this year and 9% next year to keep the recovery rolling. Capital investment increased 8% in 1977, but Commerce Department surveys indicate a rise of only 4.5% this year. Townsend-Greenspan, a consulting firm headed by Alan Green, span, a member of the TIME Board of Economists, calculates that the rise may really be a mere 3%, and warns that even that puny an increase will not be achieved unless the dollar steadies enough to remove the threat...
Landry once sold insurance, so he is quite at home in Dallas, one of the country's major insurance centers. As any good actuary should, he relentlessly computes the possibilities and probabilities that govern the chaotic life span of a football game. His much-remarked-upon stoic sideline demeanor (Don Rickles: "There's 70,000 people going bananas and there's Tom Landry trying to keep his hat on straight") is a reflection of his calculating soul. Explains Wide Receiver Golden Richards: "He is not aware of the moment because he is thinking two plays ahead of the rest...
...months, longer than the average life span of most postwar Italian governments, Andreotti's Cabinet has survived and even prospered with the support of the Communists and other major parties. The Premier reduced inflation from 25% to less than 15%, shored up the vulnerable lira, and even brought the 1977 balance of payments into the black...