Word: spans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...such efforts are applauded by Judith Wallerstein, the California clinical psychologist who first raised public consciousness about the lasting damage of divorce. After studying 131 children of divorce over a span of 15 years, she found them to be at higher risk for depression, poor grades, substance abuse and intimacy problems. "We started to report this," she says, "and people got angry. They said, 'Impossible! If it's good for the parents, it's good for the children.' They wanted to believe that divorce and women's lib would take care of everything...
...worst thing that can happen to a tired team is for it to play from behind, and that's exactly what the Crimson did. Disaster struck early, as Brown scored twice in a 47-second span in the first 5:24 of the game. The Bears would never look back...
...that I've graduated, I promise to keep my new set of paradigms spic'n'-span and right on target. Because of their awesome power, I will use them only for the good of humanity and never take unfair advantage of those poor souls who have not yet awakened to their paradigms. Indeed I shudder to imagine how this crazy world managed to survive, if not succeed, in the pre-paradigm...
...reality, the artworks created before history began-prior, say, to about 10,000 B.P. (before the present)-cover a much longer time span than what has come afterward. Southwestern European cave painting, only the most familiar expression of ancient creativity, was done over a period of at least 10,000 years. And when Paleolithic people first crawled into the Chauvet cave to daub the walls with images of rhinos and bears, nearly half of all art history was already over with...
...North Sea, France too has been battered by Niagara-like downpours. Normandy and Brittany got almost one-third of their average annual rainfall from Jan. 17 to 28. In Rennes, the Breton capital, showers dropped an astonishing 70 liters of rain per sq m in a 24-hour span of Jan. 22 to 23, breaking a 111-year record...