Word: spans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...school did its best to shake up our literary notions. My entire ninth grade year was devoted to studying works by ethnic writers: Lawrence Yep's Child of the Owl, Chaim Potok's My Name is Ascher Lev and Richard Wright's Native Son. But one year in the span of 18 is not saying a whole...
...fact, almost 30% of all cycles experienced by the 66 women over a 12- month span were in some way disrupted. The upset was caused either by a failure to ovulate (or produce an egg) or by a shortened "luteal phase," a critical stage of the menstrual cycle during which the hormone progesterone is produced. More important the researchers found that these disturbances were directly related to dramatic bone loss: the 20% who missed ovulation at least once, for example, suffered as much as a 4% reduction in bone density in one year...
...20th century, the most successful female dynast has been Indira Gandhi of India, daughter of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Over a span of 16 years, Gandhi proved herself the most formidable Prime Minister India has ever had, masterly melding the charisma of her family with the subcontinent's rich religious images of motherhood and successfully passing her office to her son Rajiv. Six years after her assassination, she is still idolized. Says Sudhir Kakar, an Indian psychoanalyst: "She is looked upon as the sacrificing mother of the joint family." Born to privilege, Gandhi believed she was born to rule...
...went to a New York Philharmonic concert which Bernstein conducted in Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. The all-Tchaikovsky program included, among other works, the Marche Slave and the Pathetique Symphony--a pretty heavy agenda for a man in his early 60s, and for a child whose attention span never even lasted to the end of a single episode of "Mr. Roger's Neighborhood...
...entered. "I had accomplished what I wanted to. It was time to move on," he says simply. Scott Matter, whose party regained the state house thanks to Kerrey's decision not to run, thinks his sudden disinterest is typical and unsettling. "He's got a short attention span," says Matter. "He's opportunistic. He could get bored with the Senate too." Kerrey concedes the point. "I could," he admits. Observes pollster Hickman: "He could walk away from politics and have a very fulfilling life. He takes issues a lot more seriously than he takes himself...