Word: spans
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...well placed to capitalize on any comeback. The company, which had revenues of $13.5 billion and is owned by the French state, is a one-stop shop for nuclear energy with almost a one-third share of the market. Unlike its key competitors Westinghouse and General Electric, its activities span all aspects of the business: it mines and enriches uranium ore to make nuclear fuel; designs and constructs reactors and helps to operate them; it also recycles the spent fuel and packages the remaining waste. Just last month, it announced a joint venture with Baltimore-based Constellation Energy to promote...
...16th century. “If Shakespeare was in love in 1599,” Shapiro writes, “it was with words.”And Shakespeare’s love of words reached a passionate peak that year. In a 12-month span, Shakespeare finished “Henry the Fifth, “Julius Caesar,” and “As You Like It,” on top of which he wrote a draft of “Hamlet.” By year’s end, Shakespeare cemented his reputation...
Keira Knightley gives a lapdance within the first 10 minutes of “Domino.” Christopher Walken is referred to as having “the attention span of a ferret on crystal meth.” There’s a naked mescaline-induced sex scene with Knightley in the middle of the Nevada desert. Vengeful mob bosses take cast members of “Beverly Hills: 90210” hostage...
...just think of the romantic possibilities—you’re sitting in a coffee shop working on your term paper. You look across the room at an unfamiliar face. The two of you simultaneously peruse facebook.com on your wireless internet to find one another, and in the span of a single heartbeat your eyes meet after reading that you share a love for coffee, Rachmaninoff, and the Godfather series. Whatever function facebook.com serves for you, it is without question a source of distraction and entertainment for all. I for one am personally thankful that it has brought...
...previous record of 3,266 set by Michael Malan from 1999-2001. Hartigan’s touchdown gave him 39 for his career which tied Malan for another Brown record. Brown (3-1) converted five turnovers by Fordham (0-5) into 20 points, including 10 during a 25-second span in the second quarter. Brandon Markey recovered a fumbled punt, setting up a 30-yard field goal by Steve Morgan that gave Brown a 17-7 lead. Frank Nuzzo then intercepted a Derric Daniels pass, and on the next play, Joe DiGiacomo threw a 34-yard scoring strike to Lonnie...