Word: spans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...climate record shows that the whole 8,000-year span of human civilization, from the dawn of cities to space flight, has taken place during a period of extraordinary warmth and stability. The past 150 years, which have seen the industrial and information ages, have been even more remarkably clement. The experience has left humanity with the notion that climate is warm and stable. But those who look at the past know different. "Climate is an angry beast," says Lamont's Wallace Broeker, "and we are poking it with sticks...
Except for the game's first 20 minutes and a five-minute span in the second half, Harvard played a pretty good game. But the Crimson's inconsistency turned out to be its demise...
...conclusion to the first section, Historical Background and Original Intent, admits, "The substance of the Core has changed since its inception [in 1974] as scholarship has changed" (p. 16). Even within a 20-year span, the grand scheme for educating Harvard students has had to accommodate progress in the academy. It is de facto a malleable entity, intended to provide breadth of knowledge and approaches thereto in the face of ever-changing facts, theories and hierarchies of importance...
...because it grants local broadcasters preferential access to cable networks. As a result, national cable channels such as Comedy Central and Fox News can't muscle their way into some desirable full cable systems. "More than 3.5 million viewers have lost access to all or part of the C-Span networks since the "must carry' rule became law in October 1992," said C-Span Chairman Brian Lamb. But in a 5-4 ruling, Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote that the law ensures that non-cable subscribers (about 40 percent of all U.S. households) have the same access to information and entertainment...
Europe looked to its southeast last week to find civilization vanishing down a sinkhole. Perennially underprivileged Albania suddenly was no longer an organized society but a state of chaos. In the span of one week, what had begun as spontaneous revolts in a few southern cities turned all of the country into a Mad Max movie: children brandishing grenades and automatic rifles; wholesale looting; and frenetic, random gunfire--an utter collapse of civil authority. Foreign nationals were fleeing the country, many by helicopter airlift. Small, sun-washed Albania had become the state of Anarchia...