Word: spans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Members have bandied about various proposals to solve the continuity problem, a problem many CHUL members believe seriously affects the viability of the committee as a student forum. They all seek to stretch the time span during which each CHUL representative can view CHUL and understand the intricacies of decision-making. Already, CHUL has decided to up the dates of elections to the committee. New members will continue to take over in February, but the earlier election date will permit a longer transition period--a longer time during which representatives--elect can sit in on meetings of CHUL...
...believes there may be something to the ancient prejudice. At the Honolulu conference, Psychiatrist Michael Bar, of Israel's Shalvata Psychiatric Center, reported a study showing that redheaded children are three or four times more likely than others to develop "hyperactive syndrome" -whose symptoms include overexcitability, short attention span, quick feelings of frustration and, usually, excessive aggressiveness...
Striking Insights. Three great waves of events course through the pages of The Mediterranean: the longue duree of geographic and physical time; the shorter time span of cities and societies; the history of political events, "surface disturbances, crests of foam that the tides of history carry on their strong backs." Striking insights emerge. Europe is not an entity; it is the physical sea that gives the region unity. Reversing the 19th century preoccupation with northern Europe, Braudel turns the globe upside down. Africa immediately looms large, overshadowing tiny Europe. The central struggle and axis in the Mediterranean is not north...
These skills include the ability to solve problems, to deal with data and to come to conclusions. The committee also hopes to find ways to measure attention span and the ability to form hypotheses, Blacklow said...
With well-planned steps, Frank has traveled a significant amount of political ground in a short span of time. With his ability, the only limits his career seems likely to encounter are the limits to his ambition. Frank has done what the best and the brightest failed to do in the '60s: move from Harvard academics to nitty-gritty government, keeping personal and intellectual integrity intact. A State House veteran who works on McGee's staff said of Frank, "Barney understands the rules of the game and the rules of procedure. Barney will not lead the charge of the Light...