Word: gapped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mandela's prison dialogue with the government on one side and antiapartheid forces on the other is making him ever more indispensable in efforts to bridge the gap between the country's 5 million whites and 26 million blacks. "He is the man who can create a basis upon which the authorities and the liberation movement can come to terms," says Yusuf Cachalia, a veteran antiapartheid activist...
...close the gap, Bush's offensive against drug-cash handlers is being placed in the hands of a newly created task force that includes the CIA, the National Security Agency and the Pentagon, as well as a team of drug, tax and customs agents. FINCEN is already at work in a crowded Virginia office littered with discarded coffee cups, overflowing ashtrays, computer terminals and maps of the world. "We're going to be a financial think tank to help train cops who are deluged in financial data," says Gene Weinschenk, acting director of FINCEN's research-and-development division...
...assessing the state of the Soviet Union. Soviet panelist Andranik Migranyan, senior research fellow at Moscow's Institute of Economics of the World Socialist System, warned that after five years of perestroika, "our economists say we have yet to hit the bottom. The people are acutely aware of the gap between words and deeds by the government. We feel we might be entering a period of chaos." Already, Migranyan warned, a loose coalition of forces -- disgruntled members of labor bureaucracies, ethnic Russian nationalists and members of the Communist elite, or nomenklatura -- can be discerned that might eventually seek Gorbachev...
Instead of shooting towards the right side, where the gap was bigger than Montana, Burke opted for the little crevice between Millham and the left post. The puck somehow found the post and skirted inside...
...stop-gap response to the dearth of women and minority faculty members here, for example, Harvard can establish a program that offers minority and women scholars visiting one- or two-year research and teaching positions. Although everyone agrees that this is not a permanent solution to the problem, it would certainly be a positive step...