Word: spans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard allowed the Tigers to score two goals within a span of two minutes to escape with the victory...
...Bush campaign in California. Dornan last month got hold of a 1989 front-page article in the Arkansas Gazette that discussed Clinton's Moscow trip. He then began railing against Clinton in late-night House speeches, often delivered to an empty chamber, but nonetheless carried on C-SPAN. Besides suggesting that Clinton may have been a dupe of the KGB, Dornan heatedly attacked the Democrat's draft record and antiwar views...
Politically, the nation's attention span is limited. Who can believe that America would stick to a course of fiscal discipline lasting eight or 10 or 15 years? A mere five years is longer than a presidential term. This means that even a five-year deadline imposes no real political accountability. In our political system, a promise to diet over five years is barely a pious wish. A promise to diet over a longer period isn't even that...
...doesn't seem like much. The average American teen has a shorter attention span...
...pull that draws in the largest meanings, if only because its frame of reference is so enormous. The millennial drama represents nothing less than the ritual death and rebirth of history, one thousand-year epoch yielding to another. Such imponderable masses of time overwhelm and humble the individual life-span, reducing human tragedies and accomplishments to windblown powder...