Word: spans
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...past the infant stage and we're probably through our toddler years, but we're nowhere near being a teenager in the life span of our league. This is a 14-year-old league. Other professional sports leagues are over 100 years old. I believe MLS will be around for generations to come. It might look very different than it does today. But we're still very early in the process...
...those brutalist European maxi-novels that periodically come soaring at us across the Atlantic as if lofted here by a trebuchet. The last one was Roberto Bolańo's 2666, in November. You can recognize them by their seriousness of purpose, their wild overestimation of the reader's attention span and their interest in physical violence that makes Saw look like Dora the Explorer. It's as if these European writers are laughing at their prim American counterparts, with their fussy scruples, the way Sudanese warlords laugh at American gangsta rappers. "Violence?" they seem to say. "War? What...
...last few months it became very clear that there was a lot of opposition to these plans," says Golts. "The biggest surprise in Medvedev's speech was the fact that, yes, even in the economic crisis these reforms are going to take place and within a fairly short time span." The cuts are necessary to free up funds to modernize equipment. On Tuesday, Serdyukov said that only 10% of military equipment is up-to-date. Medvedev said it would be better to buy new hardware rather than fix and update aging equipment; he plans to spend $43 billion on weapons...
...fourth floor of the Malkin Athletic Center into a sea of sequins and bright colors as dancers from all over the country took to the gymnasium floor. According to Masha Maystrovskaya ’11, the Harvard team’s captain, the competition takes place over the span of two days, with around 700 competitors and probably more than 1000 spectators. “Our team has been doing really well competitively this year with the Tufts, BU, and Brown competitions, so I think we’re set up to do pretty well,” she said...
...with Tegan and Sara, with the New Pornographers, with Grant-Lee Phillips, Jill Sobule, Jon Brion - it's huge. There are a lot of songs - I think it's going to be a double or triple album. Of course, a lot of the songs are very short. They span different genres too. It's not your typical music album...