Word: spans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inflict damage in the countryside. Indeed, on the very day that Duarte signed the accord, guerrillas attacked a Salvadoran town called El Triunfo and burned down three public buildings, including the mayor's office. Only days earlier, the insurgents blew up a bridge in Usulutan province, the ninth major span hit in the past seven weeks...
Bakker's sense of vision was highly erratic as well as expensive. In 1977 he suddenly announced a push for a worldwide network of missions; months later he abandoned that project and broke ground for what was to become Heritage USA. In 1986 Bakker raised $3 million in the span of a month to erect Kevin's House, an adjacent 14-bedroom home for handicapped children. Today only two youngsters live there, and federal investigators are wondering where the money went. The principal victims were PTL's "Lifetime Partners," an estimated 120,000 heads of households who pledged...
...Norcal's packers are not alone in working harder for the same or lower pay. For the first sustained period since World War II, the same frustrating experience is affecting millions of American workers, from steelworkers to grocery clerks, airline pilots to meat-packers. A prime reason: over the span of the 1980s, wages have been lagging slightly behind inflation, even at today's comparatively mild pace of about 5%. Between 1980 and June of this year, for example, the average weekly earnings for U.S. workers increased from $235 a week to $309. But after adjustment for inflation, including...
...deep into a few issues that engage him, such as the SALT II treaty and the 1984 omnibus crime bill, which he helped steer to enactment through liberal-conservative cross fire. But he has never become a recognized leader on any single large question. He has a short attention span, say his critics. He is eclectic, reply his supporters. He has ambitions that the Senate hierarchy could not satisfy, chorus...
...Children in substitute care are naturally going to respond differently to a series of separations and reunions, says Kathleen McCartney, a developmental psychologist at Harvard and another of Belsky's critics. "Kids in child care go through that every day." Tests measuring a child's energy level and attention span might be a better guide to emotional health...