Word: gap
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Summer Festival Orchestra, like its counterpart, the Boston Philharmonic, fills a great gap in the cultural life of Boston. This city has been forced for so much too long to tolerate a rapidly deteriorating orchestra with a virtual monopoly on the city's cultural life. The presence of visible competition can only be a benefit to the city, and might even force the Boston Symphony to improve...
Nevertheless, he added, the Administration "faces a credibility gap of enormous proportions" with blacks. He noted that Nixon had "asked black Americans to judge him by his deeds and not his words; we have done that-and we have been greatly disappointed." He revived his 1963 plea for a domestic Marshall Plan to help all poor people, black and white...
...program. The fine distinctions, Majority Leader Mike Mansfield asserted, could be decided later in the courts. Opposition Leader Ervin protested that by then the D.C. bill would be a model for a federal law affecting the entire nation. The American Civil Liberties Union moved quickly to close the time gap. The day after the bill was passed, its National Capital Area chapter promised to challenge the constitutionality of the 1970 D.C. crime bill...
...continue to enjoy it. Questionnaires over a ten-year period at Duke showed that the same men's interest in sex changed little from age 67 to 77, although there was a slight drop in activity. Result: a gradual widening in what the researchers coolly call the "interest-activity gap." A much lower proportion of women continued to be interested in sex after 67, but they managed to keep their interest-activity graph lines close together. "It depends on the individual," an elderly San Franciscan points out. "All ages have sexy people...
...happy the nation should feel about it. Many cannot cheer a prospect of slow gains in production and rising unemployment. Harvard's Otto Eckstein, another member of TIME'S Board of Economists, has coined the term "stretched recession" to describe the prospect. His point is that the gap between actual and potential output over the three-year period of 1969 through 1971 is likely to be as great as it would have been if the nation had gone through the classic cycle of sharp recession followed by pronounced rebound...