Word: gap
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...polled throughout the weekend and on Monday, showed Reagan gaining points right up to Election Day. By Monday night, according to Harris Executive Vice President David Neft, an unpublished Harris survey had Reagan six points ahead of Carter. Others picked up the trend too, and Wirthlin showed a widening gap through the weekend until Monday night when he, like Caddell, pegged the margin at about ten points in Reagan's favor. The Gallup survey, which eleven days before the election had Carter ahead by three points, found Reagan moving from 42% to 44% to 47% in its final survey...
...although there is agreement on the fact that the gap widened at the end, no one except Caddell and Wirthlin came close to calling the margin. The Harris organization, which is claiming great credit for doing better than other public polls, was four points off Reagan's actual voting percentage, the largest error factor it has ever had in a presidential election. Gallup not only also missed the winner's voting percentage by four points but further erred by saying that Reagan was ahead by a margin of only three points. The margin was, says George Gallup...
Mark Fusco whipped a bullet past Demetroulakos for a power-play tally at 15:59, and Burke--who continued to excel--slammed one home on a breakaway despite added red, black and white poundage draped around his legs to close the gap to 5-4 where it remained until 1:44 of the third period...
Last spring, a group of Harvard/Radcliffe students who were concerned about security issues formed a lobbying organization called S.O.S., Students Organized for Security. S.O.S. believed that the main security problem facing students was the gap between the safe way of getting from one place to another and the convenient way of doing so. Therefore, S.O.S. was concerned mainly with the college's role and the college's responsibility...
...other great pioneer among Saturn watchers was the 17th century Italian-French more Jean Dominique Cassini. He located and named four more satellites (Iapetus, Rhea, Dione and Tethys). But Cassini's place in the heavens, and in was history of astronomy, rests on the discovery of a gap in what was then presumed to be a solid, opaque ring around Saturn. Other moons, as well as rings, were up in the intervening centuries, bringing the number up to a dozen. It took Voyager 1 to reveal that the "Cassini division" was not a gap, but many more rings...