Word: chasms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chasm that has opened between Clinton and the men and women who cover him is explained by more than the White House mistakes and the press's bullyboy tendencies. For one thing, this President and his young staff don't really seem to like journalists very much. On election night a photographer asked campaign strategist James Carville to move slightly so he could get a shot of the victor. Carville refused and later bragged that since the Clintonites had won the election, they "didn't need the press anymore." That feeling was apparently shared by others. Practically the first thing...
Unlike its sterile American counterpart You Just Don't Understand by Deborah Tannen, which also seeks to identify the different languages men and women speak, Les Hommes et Les Femmes regards the chasm between men and women as being ultimately unbridgeable. They also chide American feminists for going too far in attempting to eradicate the difference between men and women...
Plus, any arguments for aluminum completely leave out the bottom line. In addition to sounding worse, aluminum bats create a major performance chasm between collegiate and professional baseball...
...become "our new organizing principle," then "the very survival of our civilization will be in doubt." And "the potential for ! true catastrophe lies in the future, but the downslope that pulls us toward it is becoming recognizably steeper with each passing year." Familiar, isn't it? The yawning chasm -- accompanied, as for every apocalypse, by the death struggle between the forces of light and the forces of darkness: "We now face the prospect of a kind of global civil war between those who refuse to consider the consequences of civilization's relentless advance and those who refuse to be silent...
...course, there remains a perk gap -- the chasm between what government officials give up and the privileges that remain. Presidential assistants are entitled to diplomatic passports, which means they can obtain them nearly overnight. For entertainment, there are the three presidential boxes at Kennedy Center theaters, which aides often use. Among the choicest berths are vacation homes in the Grand Tetons and the Virgin Islands available at Motel 6 rates...