Word: spans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only female cigarette smokers experienced a higher mortality rate, according to the findings. None of the other factors affected life span. Even male cigarrete smokers experienced no significantly higher mortality rates...
...route to Penn State's national championship in 1982, and the Stars' runner up position in 1983, Rosenberg helped coach 27 wins in a two-year span, which may stand as a modern day football coaching record...
American automobile production is only as old as the century: in that brief span the car has probably changed our lives as much as any invention in all the previous epochs. It was time that some courageous museum looked in the rear-view mirror and mounted a show to celebrate and lament those alterations. The exhibit is called "Automobile and Culture," and it is housed in the new Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA...
...true believers. No wilted shirt collars in this group. With hair carefully styled and blow-dried, they look like local-news anchormen. Television is, in fact, their medium. Its cameras are permitted in the House (unlike the stodgier Senate), and the young Turks unabashedly perform for the C-SPAN telecasts of floor debates. A Democratic majority still runs the House, so the Republicans are freer to posture...
Sears customers span every socioeconomic level. Says Chairman Telling: "The Sears customer is everybody." Raymond Kennedy, vice president and general credit manager, says, "We are the telephone book." And a fat one. Three out of four American adults, 128 million in all, will enter a Sears store some time this year. Sixty-three million people have a Sears credit card, and 26.6 million use the card regularly. Average charges per year...