Word: gapped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meeting with Reagan around December 7 would give the two sides another chance to narrow the gap on a treaty to reduce long-range nuclear weapons arsenals and to ease tensions caused by rebel attacks on Soviet troops in Afghanistan and a slowdown in the Red Army's withdrawal from the country...
...although the Soviets are now ahead of the U.S. in space development, NASA is about to perform new research that will fill the gap, Caterina said. A telescope that the space shuttle will carry into space this summer, for example, will allow scientists to expand the distance they can observe. Work has been started on Skylab Freedom, which Caterina said would make the U.S.S.R.'s current skylab obsolete...
Three freshmen who will help close the defensive gap are Rick Olczyk, Brad Hendrickson and Craig Pho. Olczyk and Hendrickson are not big, but they are strong and quick, Gaudet says. Pho is 6-ft., 1-in, 185 pounds. "He's a good skater who has command of the puck," Gaudet notes...
Harvard fell behind the Terriers, 21-0, early in the second half, but closed the gap to one point with just under four minutes left in the game...
...notorious gender gap reproduced itself atHarvard. The Democratic combination of Dukakis andSen. Lloyd Bentsen (D-Tex.) won the allegiance of74 percent of Harvard women, with 23 percentfavoring Bush. Among men, Dukakis led 67 percentto...