Word: chasms
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...died 90 minutes later. Rabin's assassination, at the hands of a nationalist Jew opposed to his peace efforts with the Arabs, occurred on November 4, but according to the Hebrew calendar the one-year anniversary fell Wednesday. Since the assassination, the peace efforts have been strained and the chasm between Israelis who support the land-for-peace formula and those opposed to it have increased. Earlier this year, four suicide bombings by Islamic militants shook Israelis' confidence in the peace process and helped lead to hard-liner Benjamin Netanyahu's election as Prime Minister. Since Netanyahu took office, relations...
...chasm between the haves and have-nots increases generation after generation because of the great difference in educational opportunity. Since education is mostly paid by local taxes, the affluent neighborhoods are able to provide their students with benefits poor children cannot have. What happens to Jesse Jackson's urban canyons of despair? A poor family, living in a poor neighborhood, that sends its children to a poor school that educates them poorly and awards them worthless diplomas only creates more poverty. No wonder welfare can be a such a frustrating cycle! When America gets serious about rebuilding its cities...
...Recharge Facility, where the President and his entourage can run undisturbed. Their path will take Clinton past a growing gaggle of children and teachers at the Viking Elementary School. They are shouting for the President to come by. But the jogging path and the schoolyard are separated by a chasm of tight security: two cyclone fences, a four-lane highway and a water-filled ditch 15 ft. wide...
...that still possible? Dole's advisers talk up voters' lingering doubts about Clinton's credibility. But the Republican hopeful could be creating a credibility chasm of his own. His proposed tax cuts are so enormous--$551 billion over six years, according to the nonpartisan Joint Tax Committee--as to leave him wide open to charges that they will cause the federal deficit to balloon. And thanks in no small part to the decades-long preaching of a former Senator named Robert J. Dole, polls lately indicate the public prefers lower deficits to lower taxes. So, in fact, do Republican Convention...
While this economic chasm is highly visible, the Commonwealth also harbors a more subtle inconsistency in perspective. Those who live on the inside of Route 495 have a unique conception of Massachusetts. Ultimately, it is this difference that allows unequal economic development to continue...