Word: gap
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...what had happened? How could the skilled diplomatic bureaucracy of a superpower mull over a highly sensitive document for nearly a month, scrutinizing each word, and then cast its vote in error? Because of a communications gap between Washington and its U.N. Ambassador in New York? Or between the President and his Secretary of State? Carter's explanation was not only lame but incredible. With one swift stroke, he had destroyed the growing notion, so carefully cultivated in this election year, of acting calmly and shrewdly on foreign policy matters...
...done. They shook their heads as the president of the United States and his court tried to batter and beat the Constitution into submission. Everyday there was some new report out of Washington; Haldeman leaves the White House, Dean takes the stand, Nixon dodges the courts--the 18-minute gap heard round the world. Watergate captured imaginations in places they had never heard of Checkers or the Potomac and sent journalists scurrying to their wire machines to figure out what was going...
...Clarkson players came out of the penalty box, but that didn't stop Crimson forward Dave Connors from tipping in a Fusco slapshot to close the gap to 3-2 at 4:50 of the period...
Aided by solid defense from Alan Litchfield and Doug Horton ("Hey, they really played well"--Duffy) who admirably plugged by gap left by still-ailing Scott Sangster, the sophomore netminder made just one real mistake the rest of the way--the Larries' second goal which pulled them within one at 4:31 in the third period...
...discrimination. Their salaries lag behind those of men. In 1978, the average salary for a male professor was $19,313 but for a female professor, it was $15,941--17.5 per cent lower. These studies control for variables such as type of institution and field of study. The salary gap tends to increase over time and with increasing rank. For example, the salary difference at the level of assistant professor puts women 4 per cent below their male colleagues; 15 years after receiving their doctorates, women earn from 13 to 23 per cent less than men. In addition, marital status...