Photo: Senator Chuck Hagel, Republican of Nebraska, entered the Social Security debate yesterday, offering a plan to reduce benefits by tying them to life expectancy, meaning that all monthly checks would drop as the average life span grew, and raise the retirement age to 68 from 67. (Photo by Doug Mills/The New York Times).
Over the years, his friends had watched with horror as Mr. Ross's quicksilver mind moved faster and faster and his attention span grew shorter and shorter.
Americans' life span grew to a record high last year, the nation's infant mortality rate fell to a new low, and births in the United States outnumbered deaths by about the same as in 1996, a report issued today said.
They Do Call It 'Camp' As seasons grow longer -- and attention spans grow shorter -- coaches are willing to try almost anything to break the monotony of monthlong training camps.
Williams has apologized for his role in the bounties — the investigation said Williams administered a pool over a three-year span that grew as large as $50,000 — and said he knew it was wrong when he was doing it.
Take Richard Thompson and others such as Fairport Convention and Steeleye Span who grew out of the folk boom of the Sixties.
In his 26-month life span, he grew to 320 pounds from 115 pounds.
Certainly the definition of "old" is changing, as life spans have grown longer.
PayTM, the billion dollar payments firm backed by Alibaba, started out as a similar project to fix internal payment issues at parent company One97, but then was span out and grew.
But also my already short attention span is growing ever shorter as a result of my behavior and true serenity comes from being in the moment and not from checking out.
The plantation spanned about and grew both cotton and tobacco.
