Word: spans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...state and local officials were collecting congratulations on their efforts last week, troubling questions were being raised about two catastrophes: the collapse of a stretch of Interstate 880 in Oakland and the fall of a 50-ft. span on the Bay Bridge, which connects Oakland and San Francisco. In concentrating on the destructive potential of buildings, had government disaster planners overlooked the fragile condition of heavily traveled highways and bridges...
...finalists boast qualifications across arange of activities that span the extracurricularbreadth of Harvard. The reason for this, claimsLeverett House's John David Brewington Jr., is thefact that these people, who voters "see" and"like", are the type who "are not satisfied withjust cracking the books...
This, in itself, is not out of the ordinary according to Arnowitt. One pianist performed all of the sonatas in the span of two weekends at Boston's Jordan Hall, and another plowed through them in one weekend. With an average performance time of 30 minutes each that came to 16 hours...
Steve headed in the tying goal on a Sean Shapert corner kick at 12:43, then Ken swept up a hat trick in a 16-minute span as the game went from a 1-1 battle to a 4-1 barrage...
...thick of things, he is the Pogues' charismatic center. It was MacGowan and his writing that got Terry Woods out of retirement. At 42, Woods is older by a decade than the rest of the band, and he played with such mid-'70s English electric-folk groups as Steeleye Span, on whose influence the Pogues have drawn extensively. "I've been through the folk revival; I've been through the decline of the revival," he says. "But I liked MacGowan's writing. A lot of Irish music had been parlorized by the English. The Pogues took it back...