Word: chasms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...monument to the search for happiness, at San Simeon, and extends 90 miles north to Carmel. Earle has enlarged our purview to include the Monterey Bay area 12 miles farther northwest, so that we are able to look at Elkhorn Slough off Moss Landing and Monterey Canyon. This underwater chasm, as huge as the Grand Canyon, reaches out 45 nautical miles to the foot of the continental slope, and down 9,600 ft. At the top it ripples black, like a tarpaulin on a baseball field in the rain. Below, it contains life-forms that range from the silver machinery...
...Keizo Obuchi couldn't come to Washington next week with an empty briefcase. That's why he cut a deal with his political opponents Friday over stalled banking reform legislation -- a deadlock that had exasperated Washington. "This appears to be an important step, but they still have a major chasm to cross," says TIME reporter Bernard Baumohl. "At least now Obuchi has some news for President Clinton. It would have been terribly embarrassing for him to come to Washington with no plan to reform his country's banking sector, which many see as a crucial step to overcoming the Asian...
...shame, if that's what it is, seems curiously linked to the galloping economy. Whereas inner-city kids once were pessimistic about job prospects, those who counsel them say they are now brimming with ambition. Experts also point out that while in 1965 there was a 20-point chasm between black and white high school graduation rates, a Census report last month announced that it had disappeared. "I don't want kids holding me down," says Afrika Harrigan, 17, a would-be journalist. "Why would you do that to yourself...
...persuade them of the visionary force and practical need for the Great Leap Forward of the late 1950s. In Mao's mind, the intensive marshaling of China's energies would draw manual and mental labor together into a final harmonious synthesis and throw a bridge across the chasm of China's poverty to the promised socialist paradise on the other side...
...bridge the cultural chasm is tobring your significant other closer to your ownculture, according to Fraijo...