Word: spans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While they are concerned by the abbreviatedtime-span of the admissions process, Universityadministrators were quick in their praise for theadmissions office's decisions...
...pair offreshmen in the final minute of the period. GuardLaura Barnard scored the final five points of theperiod on an off-the-dribble jumper andtop-of-the-key three-pointer, and forward LindsayRyba, who was celebrating her 18th birthday, cameup with two steals in a 24-second span, the secondleading to Barnard's jumper...
...notes state that a critic even went so far as to call it a "joke in bad taste." Strauss's reply was "I did not mean to make fun. What can be more serious a matter than married life?" Strauss's domestic life is anything but dull. In the span of 24 hours the composer had to deal with an irate wife whom he also finds ravishingly beautiful, the howling of his infant son, and the pressure to compose...
Texas sure is an exciting place. I'd forgotten how wild and trigger-happy my home state was until I returned to Houston last week for a little rest and leisure. In the span of the three days after Thanksgiving, we Texans got caught up in a real-life Western featuring a daring prison escape, several shootouts and a manhunt reminiscent of Bonnie and Clyde...
Seaboard is a publicly owned company, but in fact it is the fiefdom of a reclusive Boston-area family (more on that later). A sort of mini-conglomerate, Seaboard has interests in hogs, strawberries, chickens, shrimp, salmon, flour and wine. Its operations span four continents and nearly two dozen countries and range from cargo ocean liners to sugarcane. And like other profitable businesses, it collects subsidies--or, more accurately, corporate welfare--from local, state and federal governments. Indeed, officials trip over one another in the rush to extend taxpayer support to Seaboard--from the Federal Government's Overseas Private Investment...