Word: spans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eyes have it. Reading questions aloud is boring, even on C-SPAN. None of the courtroom wizards on L.A. Law use crib sheets. Explains Dorothy Sarnoff, a corporate-image adviser: "When you read, we don't see the eyes, so we don't know what you're feeling...
Bird's layup broke a 2-2 tie and began a 12-2 surge that lifted the Celtics into a 14-4 lead just 4:31 into the game. Bird had four points and three assists in that span. He had 14 points in the first quarter, which ended with Boston in front...
Adler's age: 84, a span that he reflects upon with profound satisfaction. "The greatest single piece of good fortune anyone can have," he says, "is work worth doing." To Adler, the essence of that work has been educational reform -- away from trendy relativism and back to absolute values, which he believes should be taught from kindergarten through graduate school. He especially deplores the contemporary notion that metaphysics is nonsense and that science and other subjects can be taught without reference to an individual's responsibility to society. "The lack of standards of right and wrong, good...
...countered with a goal three minutes later to regain the lead, but consecutive tallies by Harvard captain and leading scorer Kelly McBride (two goals, two assists) and Joslin within a 53-second span gave the Crimson its first lead of the half...
...another problem is attracting an audience large enough or dedicated enough to sustain Rear Window's off-the-wall programming. Kleiler attributes the difficulty in attracting a college audience to the lower attention span of our generation. "College kids have no interest in the past, in movies more than two years old. I wouldn't blame this on TV and VCRs; it's more of a general trend--in books, media as a whole...