Word: gaps
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...past two years, Gruosi-Scheufele has been focusing on the development of the family owned brand's high-jewelry collection, or what she affectionately calls the "real rocks." "There's not much real creation in the market at that level, and so we wanted to fill the gap," she explains. Ever since Gruosi-Scheufele joined the company, which her father bought in 1963 from Paul-Andre Chopard, a descendant of the founder, Louis-Ulysse Chopard, she has been looking for ways to expand the brand beyond its watchmaking roots. In 1976 she came up with the concept of Happy Diamonds...
...president urged students in a panel discussion at Harvard Business School (HBS) last night to use their positions as future elites to help reduce the “achievement gap” among racial and socioeconomic groups. This was the second event of “Raps on the Gap,” a University-wide interdisciplinary discussion series sponsored by Harvard’s Achievement Gap Initiative. Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) lecturer and Achievement Gap Initiative Director Ronald F. Ferguson began the panel by comparing test scores among different racial groups, noting trends associated with racial and socioeconomic backgrounds...
...Matt Scherrer, a co-founder of the site, said that Beyond Orders’ humanitarian focus fills a gap in the U.S. military’s presence in Iraq...
...They’re sitting here in college, looking at their job options, and the salary gap is pretty impressive between a military officer and the companies that they’d be looking at,” Havice said. “And they’re sitting here choosing the military for love of country...
Monday's decision by Florida Democrats to abandon their efforts to hold a new primary, in order to get their delegation seated at the national party's August convention, is another blow to Hillary Clinton's attempt to close the small but near-impregnable delegate gap on her rival, Barack Obama. And she's having little more luck in Michigan...