Word: spans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LAST SUMMER drug abuse suddenly became a national crisis complete with certification from Newsweek and virtually every other national publication. Reagan's interest in actually reducing drug abuse, however, was never much larger than his memory span. For Reagan, the issue provided a perfect excuse for tampering with the judiciary and promoting his right-wing ideological agenda, all under the aegis of saving our youth from drugs...
Officials said the span went through extensive rehabilitation about two years ago and was deemed in good condition in its last inspection, in April...
Thruway spokesman Raymond Makay said replacement of a bridge usually takes two years but that authorities would try to speed up work on a new span...
...tribute to the durability and talent of the club, the squad finished with a 3-1-1 record in that span, losing only to Temple, the nation's number-one ranked team...
Sure enough, a check of the Kamiokande II detector in Japan disclosed that a burst of eleven neutrinos, with the predicted range of energies, arrived in a span of 13 seconds on Feb. 23, about three hours before light from the supernova was first observed. And data provided by the IMB (Irvine-Michigan- Brookhaven) detector under Lake Erie showed a burst of eight neutrinos in six seconds at the same time as the Japanese reading. Says Physicist Frederick Reines, of the University of California, Irvine: "One observation by one team is not sufficient; it has to be confirmed...