Word: spans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...turmoil and indecision, observers are begining to wonder: When will Hillary Rodham Clinton settle on a hairstyle? Above, from last year's no-nonsense, working-mom shag to last week's short-lived Betty Crocker-style coif. Below, the control sample: Barbara Bush's styles over a similar time span...
Sexual and domestic violence is a persistent social problem which must remain visible in a culture whose political attention span is exceedingly short. The rally provides an opportunity for survivors to share their stories and make these statistics and discourse a reality...
...season with no wins or an ERA over 6.00, you don't deserve to stay up. If that means That each major league staff is reduced to six or seven pitchers, so be it. A guy named Old Hoss Radbourne once threw five complete games in a six-day span just before the turn of the century, so don't tell me that Roger Clemens' arm can't function without four days' rest...
...curing cancer but at prolonging the period of time colonies of tumor cellsmissed by conventional therapy remain in place without spreading. "Suppose we prolong this period of dormancy for 10 years, and then another 10 years," muses Folkman. "Why, now we're beginning to compete with the normal life span...
...project, set up by San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography, is designed to find out whether the much / feared global warming is actually occurring. At regular intervals over a period of years, scientists will fire acoustic "shots" across the water and measure the time it takes them to span great stretches of the Pacific. Since sound moves faster in warm water than in cold, researchers will get an indirect indication of ocean temperature. The experiment will begin next month --if the government grants an exemption to a law protecting marine mammals from harassment...