Word: gapped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...boyish 5-ft. 9-in. dynamo with the gap-toothed grin was reared in a $9,000 tract house in the San Fernando Valley. He originally wanted to become a doctor, but show business kept catching his eye. Sally Field, a classmate at Birmingham High School in Van Nuys, remembers him standing quietly in the back of the room, watching her drama-class rehearsals...
...ritual rhetoric could not paper over the underlying problems in the relationship between the two allies. Chief among them is Japan's stubborn trade surplus with the U.S., which now seems stuck at more than $50 billion a year. After shrinking during much of 1988, the trade gap widened significantly last November, leading some economists to conclude that the improvement has at least temporarily stalled. The trade gap has defied such remedies as the dollar's steep two-year decline, which was expected to slow Japanese exports to the U.S. by making them more expensive. One reason for the lack...
...culprits didn't feel guilty for very long, however. Karl Williams netted a short-handed goal less than two minutes later to narrow the Harvard gap to two goals...
...some neighborhood activists add, Healy is already calling the shots on policy issues--particularly those involving development. But the city manager says he just follows the council's plans, despite an occasional communication gap between his office and the councillors...
Plenty of local politicians are ready to fill the gap created by the retirement of three long-time liberal members of the City Council...