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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Residents have been calling for action since a series of violent crimes—including a stabbing in Harvard Square in May and three shootings in the span of one week in June—struck the city at the beginning of the summer...
Californians have a short attention span. Show me one Governor in the country whose state is not suffering from severe budget problems. To the detriment of the nation, billions of federal dollars that might have been used to help the states are subsidizing the rich and funding a war that should never have happened. We have lost the ideals of the New Deal and the Great Society, which were put in place to help all Americans, and we have lost the respect and admiration of the world. Schwarzenegger wouldn't save California; he would terminate it. SABINO RODRIGUEZ Daytona Beach...
...hydrogen power went nowhere then, just as it went nowhere when it was trumpeted nearly a century ago. It will probably go nowhere today, for many reasons, most notably a chronic case of short attention span among American politicians when it comes to energy policy. With great fanfare, lawmakers and Presidents--both Democrats and Republicans--announce sweeping plans to end or ease American dependence on foreign oil and find other stable sources of energy. When the headlines and television sound bites fade away, however, they scrap the programs, which then are often reintroduced to an unsuspecting public...
...holding out for now, and there's pressure on Alcan to raise its price. The deal may not happen at all. Peterson at Thomson Financial says hostile takeover bids have a very low success rate: only one in five gets done. But stock markets have a short attention span. If the bid helps to spark a merger revival, everyone will have moved on by the time the deal runs into trouble. Is that about to happen? "There are many rumored deals out there," Peterson says. "But it's not a seismic turn of events. We'll have...
TOTAL LIFE-SPAN 2 weeks to a few months...