Word: spans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This would still seem to be a dubious strategy, since the male necessarily mates only once. But male redbacks have a short life-span and rarely live long after copulation anyway. "It appears likely," says Andrade, "that one shot is all a redback male gets." By yielding to the female's consuming interest, he makes sure it is his best shot. --Michael D. Lemonick
...quick start, taking advantage of Harvard's lax perimeter defense to shoot out to a 20-6 lead. As the Crimson defenders collapsed on Foyle inside, Red Raider guard Seth Schaeffer lit it up, sinking two three-pointers and a 15-foot jumper in a span of just...
...past./ I'd like to find your inner child and kick its little a----." Up at Renaissance, things were running according to form. Despite temperatures in the 30s, many participants dutifully jogged the beach before their 8 a.m. seminar. Two (unacquainted) participants compared the panels to "interactive C-SPAN" and "watching MacNeil/Lehrer from 8 in the morning till 10 at night." And neither remark was meant as an insult...
...sometimes he forgot who he had become. Under pressure he reverted to the pompous thug of late-night cable, the backbencher lobbing grenades on C-SPAN about sick Democrats who were enemies of normal Americans. He was new on the job. And the job, as he reshaped it, was new too. He didn't realize his every remark would now be measured for maturity, not ferocity. He didn't realize that once a battle is won, it's time to move graciously to the peace table. "I keep forgetting that all the ground rules have changed,'' he told Time last...
Harvard rattled off 10 unanswered points in a span of 1:09, including two clutch buckets from freshman forward Suzie Miller to pull within...