Word: spans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard plans to spend $50 million on its power plant, $130 million on the hospital tower, and only $40 million of state money on housing. All of this over the next three to five years. The impact of that much on this community in that span of time is impossible to predict or overestimate...
...help being optimistic. Just in terms of time, the 30-year span is an improvement compared to the 1918-1939 period. I think there is also an improvement in that we seem to have mechanisms that work better. The United Nations and other organizations, imperfect as they are, seem to have accomplished a great deal more than the League of Nations. So despite the quantum jump in military capability compared with the previous 20-year period, we have stretched the period of peace, and it is my judgment that the prospects are even better for the next decade and beyond...
...statistics are improving. The average American life span reached a record-high 71.9 years in 1974, up from 71.3 in 1973. According to the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., the expected lifetime rose to 68.1 years for men and to 75.8 for women - the largest annual increases in two decades...
...that even the two sickest major industries-autos and housing-are reflecting the first faint blush of recovery. Housing starts rose 14% from April to May. Auto sales climbed 5% from the first three weeks in May to the equivalent period in June, though they usually decline during that span...
CASTRO. Though Castro is still alive, it is not because the CIA did not consider various ways of doing him in. The design on the "maximum leader's" life burgeoned over a span of some two years into a corpus of schemes. As best the principals remember, the idea first emerged in the late spring or early summer of 1960 as a simple, even simple-minded plot to poison Castro's food or slip him a poisoned cigar. By some accounts, the notion originated with a senior officer in the agency's Western Hemisphere division whose ideas...