Word: spans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...baseball's Jackie Robinson [ESSAY, March 31] should be required reading--not only for multimillion-dollar utility infielders but also for every young person who aspires to be anything. It is powerfully eloquent in its simplicity and brevity, which should well serve a generation that has the attention span of a strobe light. MIKE KALLAY Honolulu
Maisie Houghton described the span of the couple's professional lives as "the lifespan of the women's movement...
First things first. After toying with the Wildcats for the first nine minutes, the Crimson unleashed a demon in Max von Zuben. Playing for the last time at Ohiri field, the senior tallied three strikes in a span of 4:29, racing his team to a 6-1 lead at the end of the first period. He finished with a career-high seven goals--two short of a team record--and now has an astounding 12 points in the last two games...
These aren't just hypothetical situations. These events happened over the span of the last two weeks, and countless more disasters happen like them every day. In these two cases, the computer's owners were very lucky that none of their data was lost or damaged...
...like we are very much the same people. We span East Coast to West Coast, from New York to Oregon. People-wise and interestwise and belief-wise, we are very diverse...