Word: gap
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...community relations in many cities are somewhat better than they were in the 1960s. For another, Jordan, though widely respected, does not have King's evangelical, emotional appeal to the black masses. Far from serving as the symbol of black aspirations, Jordan plays a conciliatory role, bridging the gap between black and white communities...
...twin pillars of his foreign policy will be a greatly increased defense and a strengthened economy. He has refused to put a price tag on the buildup he favors. But it would be very high, for Reagan believes that the U.S. is on the losing end of a "widening gap" in its military competition with the Soviet Union. He vows that his Administration will seek to regain "a superior defensive capability...
...Carter Administration and liberal defense experts deny that such a gap exists, though it is a looming danger; they say the nuclear arsenals of the two sides are in a state of approximate parity. To Soviet ears, Reagan's repeated use of the word superior is sure to sound like a rejection of the very notion of parity, a hankering after the strategic superiority the U.S. enjoyed in the '50s and '60s, and a threat to launch an accelerated arms race...
...four refugee camps, where they began the dreary game of waiting as center officials slowly processed them. Of the 7,500 refugees now living at Eglin, 5,000 have been there since the center opened on May 3. Arkansas' Fort Chaffee remains filled with 18,800, Indiantown Gap Military Reservation, Pa., holds 15,000, and the just opened Camp McCoy near Sparta, Wis., has 172. "The boredom is overwhelming," complained Luis Martinez, an engineering technician who has been at Eglin for more than two weeks. "All you can do is worry, worry, worry...
...years they had torn up the league during regular-season play, then faded in the playoffs. This year they finally made it to the finals, rolled up a 3-1 margin over the Philadelphia Flyers in the best-of-seven series-and almost choked. The Flyers narrowed the gap at three games to two. Said Islander Garry Howatt: "If one more person reminds me of our reputation, I'll choke...