Word: spans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...least one thing is true. The Crimson is the team to beat in the Ivy League. Over the past four years, the netwomen have captured four consecutive Ancient Eight titles. During that same span, they have posted an unequaled Ivy record of 24-1 (45-21 overall...
Minnesota: Bloomington Project. A $47 million replacement of a bridge over the Minnesota River will link the area south of the river with the Minneapolis suburb of Bloomington. The present structure, a temporary span with a six-year anticipated life, was put up in 1978. It has been underwater three times after storms. Highway-bill contribution: $16 million...
Savannah: Talmadge Memorial Bridge. The city's hopes of becoming a major port are pinned on modernizing the bridge to allow passage of bigger ships. Talmadge Memorial was struck by a cargo boom of the U.S.S. Callaghan during military exercises in July 1983, underscoring the need to raise the span from its current 136-ft. height to 175 ft. Price: $90 million. Federal share: $53 million...
Things have presumably become easier since the C-Span cable network began televising the proceedings of the two houses. Now reporters watch them on big television sets in the third-floor rabbit warren called the Senate Press Gallery, with its incongruously ornate ceiling and floor, joined by drab partitions of a later date. Where they once had to sit in the gallery, now correspondents can watch the action or lack thereof as they tap away at their modem word processors, sip coffee and turn down the volume on Senators D'Amato and Helms...
...book. Dole decided to filibuster, hoping to use the time gained to shepherd one of the 13 stubborn Republicans back into the President's flock. The delay was accomplished with a series of motions and countermotions. The text of each motion, printed across the television screen by C-Span, soon approached self-parody...