Word: spans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...train was 34 minutes late, timing that in the end proved fatal. At 2:50 a.m. Amtrak's Sunset Limited reached the wood-and-steel span over Big Bayou Canot in Alabama. It had crossed the bridge dozens of times since its Los Angeles-to-Miami route was inaugurated in April. And so, with 210 people on board, it came confidently down the tracks -- and into the worst accident in Amtrak's 23-year history...
...philosophers. A more plausible alternative is the God of mysticism, experienced as a reality that lies beyond human concepts, much the way that great art is felt. Not that this will be easy in an age of anomie, symbolized by handgun violence, hip-hop quality and an MTV attention span. Human kind cannot bear very much reality, T.S. Eliot wrote, but it also cannot endure too much emptiness and desolation. In her book's dying fall, Armstrong suggests that the ancient quest for life's meaning will...
...cable-compensation law passed, is still scrambling for its place in the new order. According to sources familiar with the network's negotiations, what had seemed two weeks ago a done deal -- CBS wouldlaunch a cable public affairs channel, a highly unnecessary crossbreed of CNN and C-SPAN -- seemed indanger of falling apart as TCI, the country's biggest cable operator, was playing even harder ball than usual...
...best action-thriller keep-you-on-the-edge-of-your-seat movie in a long while, and definitely welcomed relief from what could have been a very long summer drought. There has to be something to this movie if it can keep someone like me with the attention span of a gnat engaged from start to finish...
...think Senator Simon would agree that C-SPAN should carry a warning: "This network depicts graphic hypocrisy, moral turpitude and duplicity. Viewers should be aware that this is ONLY the United States Congress. You should UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES imitate such behavior in real life...