Word: three-year
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...fact that Mir had become a deathtrap. Once parts of the glinting International Space Station went aloft, it was clear there was no need to keep the old outpost in orbit. So now, more than 15 years after it was launched on what was to have been a three-year flight, Mir will splash into history, its mission finished but its story only beginning to be told...
With Botterill and Shewchuk, the Crimson has two more Kazmaier finalists than any other school in the NCAA field. In the award's short three-year history, no team with a Kazmaier winner has ever failed to reach the national championship game...
That doesn't mean that Cheney shouldn't look for ways to ease the pressures of his life. Blumenthal and his colleagues at Duke have found that relaxation exercises and a few changes in attitude helped lower the risk of heart complications in their cardiac patients 74% over a three-year period. "They can modify how they handle stress," Blumenthal says, "without affecting their ability to be successful...
...return to work, Sharon's plan will succeed. Arafat can't keep saying the intifada will continue when the main concern of his people is to feed themselves and earn some income. If the Palestinian leadership keeps operating in this way, I predict that Sharon will easily survive his three-year term. His best assets may be his enemies, both on the Israeli and the Palestinian side...
...Afghan with a wispy beard, had debated with his elders for many weeks, while the famine--the worst in 30 years--tightened its grip on the village. Would they stand a better chance of survival if they remained? Or should they wander elsewhere until they found help? After a three-year drought, every village well had run dry, and the goats and sheep had died. Finally Hawaneen decided it was time to go; he had fed his family the last grains of wheat he had intended to plant this spring if the rains ever came. Besides, word had reached...