Word: spans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Green offense would not be contained. Behind Bowler, Dartmouth unleashed three goals in a three minute span, and took a 8-7 lead with four minutes left in the game...
...news, when it flies in raw and ragged, can be lacerating. The medium destroys sequence. Reading restores to the mind a stabilization of linear prose, a bit of the architecture of thought. First one sentence, then another, building paragraphs, whole pages, chapters, books, until eventually something like an attention span returns and perhaps a steadier regard for cause and effect. War (and television) shatters. Reading, thought reconstruct. The mind in reading is active, not passive-depressive...
...this span, Harvard has played with confidence and success at both ends of the field. While it is difficult competing in the shadow of last year's team, this year's squad has responded, getting production from its veterans and younger players...
...Elis climbed back into the contest with two tallies over the next seven minutes. With 10 minutes to go, the score was a fragile 7-3. But Downing and Berkery emphatically shut the door, registering Harvard's eighth and ninth goals within a twenty-second span...
Fueling these worries is a new rule, scheduled to be enacted in June by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, that would stretch the legal life-span of many atomic plants to 60 years. Although the NRC says it will ensure that the industry addresses age-related issues, some scientists charge that the agency's safety guidelines are not stringent enough to prevent catastrophic accidents. Forty years ago, "these nuclear plants, after concerted study, were granted a finite number of years to operate," says M.I.T. physicist Henry Kendall, who shared a Nobel Prize last year for discovering subatomic particles called quarks...