Word: spans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mass famine has been averted over a 2,600-mi. strip stretching across the southern Sahara, many of the area's 24 million people are still seriously short of food. Severe malnutrition seems inevitable, and with it an increase in disease and a lowering of the average life span...
When I got here, someone told me that the Harvard experience was whatever happened to you in four years, and he was right. So I wasn't trying, in looking back over all the photographs I took in that time span, to find out what my Harvard experience had been about, because I think I know the answer to that...
...bonuses to employees in the know, always being careful to deduct the proper withholding taxes, and then scooped them back for secret donations to politicians. The contractors in question worked on, among other things, state roads and two huge bridge-building projects in the Baltimore-Annapolis area: the parallel span of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, which opened last June and provides a second, four-mile-long bridge for traffic across the bay, and an interstate-highway bridge over Baltimore harbor. The two projects were financed by a $220 million bond issue approved by the state legislature in 1967, but both...
...Wakeman has blond hair to his waist and broad hands that easily span an octave and a third. He likes to wear hip-hugging jeans, suede moccasins and pop jerseys adorned by Mickey Mouse or slogans like: "I'm only here for the beer...
...Over the span of two years, University Health Services has changed markedly--to the credit of a lot of different people. Since Dr. Wacker became director in July 1971, everything has opened up. Things are more honest, people are more accessible, there's a lot more input from a variety of people. It was Dr. Wacker who accepted my proposal to create a position of ombudsman, a gesture of good faith on his part in the consumer population. It was more or less giving official status to an infiltrator...