Word: spans
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After years of stagnant performances and a coaching turnover, Saretsky, in just a two-year span, has transformed the squad into a confident, and—more importantly—successful contender in the Ivies...
...your attention span (or workload) can’t get you through half an hour of TV, behold the eight-minute online drama...
...cities where police agencies commit the most resources to arresting their way out of their drug problems, the arrest rates for violent crime - murder, rape, aggravated assault - have declined. In Baltimore, where we set The Wire, drug arrests have skyrocketed over the past three decades, yet in that same span, arrest rates for murder have gone from 80% and 90% to half that. Lost in an unwinnable drug war, a new generation of law officers is no longer capable of investigating crime properly, having learned only to make court pay by grabbing cheap, meaningless drug arrests off the nearest corner...
...endure a more gruesome aftermath of a total breakdown in leadership than Rwanda. In 1994, Rwanda suffered a tragedy unimaginable in both scope and brutality. It was the fastest genocide in recorded history. An estimated 800,000 to one million innocent civilians were killed in a span of one hundred days, and hundreds of thousands fell victim to displacement and starvation in the following weeks and months. The international community’s failure to act, in spite of the fact that the whole world was aware of the atrocities taking place, is one of the most shameful facts...
...Schafer said, adding, “We had some breakdowns—we had some opportunities, but we didn’t get our head up and make that extra pass and forced it [instead].”That, ultimately, was the difference in the game. Except a span at the end of the third period where Harvard struggled on the power play—including a brief 5-on-3—the visitors made the most of their chances, stealing back the momentum with unexpected goals. On the other hand, Cornell—perhaps feeling extra pressure because...