Search Details

Word: spans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Harvard responded just as quickly, as Yenne netted her second and third goals, both unassisted, in the span of less than three minutes...

Author: By David R. De remer and Brian E. Fallon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: W. Soccer Splits Opening Matches | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

...party with such close ties to Hollywood, their efforts at adding TV gloss to their stage show have been strictly public-access cable. For instance: If you didn't watch C-SPAN, you were spared the spectacle, but someone convinced the Dems it would be all telegenic and Elizabeth Dole-y to conduct "American Dialogues" - little faux talk shows in between speeches. Thus last night, Sen. Jay Rockefeller had the humiliating task of carrying a handheld mike and asking health-care questions of "average Americans" onstage, who gave canned, halting responses that they seemed to be trying to read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joseph in the Technicolor Dream Factory | 8/16/2000 | See Source »

...five years ending in April 1999, family-owned businesses in New York spent an average of $125,000 on estate preparation, according to the Public Policy Institute of New York State. The institute estimates that the average family-owned business would have created 14 new jobs during that time span had it not spent so heavily on estate planning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kill The Estate Tax! | 8/14/2000 | See Source »

...parliamentary procedure, trying to figure out which delegates are still showing up, trying to get to a point when they can actually vote. Everybody's referring to Roger's Rules, but nobody seems to have a copy. But it must be the real convention, because it's on C-SPAN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weird Political Science: Reform Party Mitosis | 8/10/2000 | See Source »

...SPAN rocks! If you didn't watch the last night of the convention on that cable network, you probably didn't get to watch Brooks and Dunn belt out "Hard-Workin' Man" for George W. Bush's coming-out bash, thoroughly jazzing up the Texas delegation, their little yellow Stetsons bobbing to the twangy, big-backbeat fake-country jam. Too bad for you. It was the perfect lead-in to "The Sky's the Limit," Bush's getting-to-know-me film, a video invite to the line dance he's offering to take the country on for the next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bad Boy Makes Good — But Not Goody-Good | 8/4/2000 | See Source »

Previous | 196 | 197 | 198 | 199 | 200 | 201 | 202 | 203 | 204 | 205 | 206 | 207 | 208 | 209 | 210 | 211 | 212 | 213 | 214 | 215 | 216 | Next