Word: spans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...earlier downsizing was accomplished through attrition and reduced recruiting. Now the dread phrase "involuntary separation" is in vogue, and pink slips are about to go out by the thousands. Air Force Sergeant Cindy Gunter, 33, of Pope A.F.B., Fayetteville, N.C., is leaving halfway through a career she hoped would span 20 years. "I'm being thrown out, that's the way I look at it," she says. "They're making me go. I don't have a choice...
...think that you'll find that within the nextyear, the European dance scene will start todominate American youth culture and you'll have aclub culture that will just span the U.S.,"O'Keefe said. "I think it'll be a much happierplace...
...least, the kosher communty was fed up with tuna-only lunches. To put matters in perspective, let's say the average kosher lunch consists of two cans of tuna per day. That's over 400 in the span of an academic year. In other Words, I have made words, in the past two and one half years I have made use of over 1000 3.5 ounce Pooling the collective cans of the entire Jewish community could have provided enough law materials to construct new Hillel building (provided Cambridge's zoning laws don't have something ridiculous to say about metal...
Orangutans can do it upside down, while rhinos carry on for up to an hour. Lions take pride in engaging up to 50 times in a 24-hour span and koalas mate for just 40 seconds three times per year...
...behold avid museum-goers! Before you condemn me for my uncouth, uncultured ways, I'd like to announce that I am converted. I have discovered a museum that holds my fleeting attention span for longer than an hour (an amazing task indeed)--the Children's Museum of Boston...