Word: spans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...observation, take on such a hortatory, didactic air. One knows, looking at Millais's portrait of Ruskin in his sober frock coat on the rocky verge of a Scots cascade, that every wrinkle of the gray gneissic crag he stands on is meant to speak of the geological span of the creation and to imply a sense of time at the opposite extreme to the rapid movement of the water, so that the life of man is presented as a kind of middle term between the geologically permanent and the merely transient...
...programmers you mentioned. These outstanding innovators have provided exceptional educational programs that allow students to develop their minds commensurate with their ability. As a classroom aid, this software has brought about a significant change in the attitude of my students. The result is improved attendance, motivation and attention span...
...stock options as a sweetener in the boss's pay packet. William S. Anderson, who retired in April as chairman of NCR Corp., earned perhaps the highest executive income in the U.S. last year, $13.2 million, largely by exercising stock options he had acquired over a ten-year span...
Second Words, Atwood's selected essays from 1960 to the present, span the growth of her consciousness of injustice and her defense against growing attacks. Some of the battles she fought, as recounted in the book's second section--which she dubs "Dugout"--may seem remote to the non-Canadian reader in the present, as may some of the poetry reviewed in Atwood's early years, under the title "Rooming House." The shorthand, completely personal references ("Rooming House," she says, "runs from 1960 to 1971, during which I moved about fifteen times, always to places with a lot of stairs...
WHEN COLORADO GOVERNOR RICHARD LAMM said recently in an oft-misquoted speech that "we have a duty to die and get out of the way with our artificial hearts," he was not advising that anyone put a ceiling on the life span of a useful human being. What he was referring to are the questions raised by the extraordinary and expensive advances of medical technology, and the fact that society must attempt to allocate its resources in the most ethical and fair way. He wasn't suggesting that old people exit en masse, but rather that it is time...