Word: gap
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Angel painting never recovered from the blow dealt by the Reformation. After Luther's proposal that men could approach God directly by faith through grace, with no intermediaries, the angels were theologically unemployed. The gap they were meant to close had been written out of existence; they were reduced to mere attendant lords, thunderbolt carriers to swell a scene or two. Nineteenth century rationalism seemed to finish them off for good. The remark of a Victorian doctor, that he had never met the soul in a dissection, found its artistic parallel in Gustave Courbet...
Most statistical indexes slumped. Falling in every month but two, industrial production sank 5.3%. Almost one-quarter of the nation's industrial capacity lay idle, creating a large gap between the actual and the potential growth of the economy, if its resources of manpower and plant had been fully utilized.* Retail sales foundered, and corporate profit margins retreated to their lowest level in twelve years. The nation's real output of goods and services declined about .2%. That happened because the 5.3% price inflation more than offset the 5.1% growth of gross national product...
...growth gap is measured in terms of constant dollars at the 1958 rate, in order to discount the effects of inflation...
What happens when a philanthropist wants to help activist students? Take the case of John D. Rockefeller III. Long concerned about the gap between businessmen and young people, he set up a task force to advise him. Then last week he appeared at Massachusetts' newly opened Hampshire College to declare that since young people have been committed to solving social problems for some time, "the main responsibility for reconciliation now rests with the Establishment...
...tenants, and the landlords can continue to play Monopoly with the rent control issue. In any event the Property Owners are going to keep Park Place and Boardwalk. Rent control may eventually succeed in getting some temporary relief for tenants but at best it will be a stop-gap measure. In Monopoly you win with hotels, not houses...