Word: chasms
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...other Latin nations banded together to nudge Washington's Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) proposal off the agenda. The move, which has angered the Bush Administration, reflects growing skepticism in Latin America over the virtues of free-market reforms, which many believe have simply widened the chasm between rich and poor in a region that already displays the world's worst disparities in wealth...
...marble window seats and actually get to know the images. Like all meaningful brushes with history, visiting the Palazzo Ducale plays constantly with your sense of time. Look at Ideal City or peer down the seemingly endless spiral staircase in one of the towers, and you feel the chasm between past and present. Then you turn a corner into the duke's study, and the centuries disappear. From eye level to the floor, the room is a series of wood panels with exquisite inlaid images of Federico's favorite things--musical instruments, suits of armor and loads of books. Above...
...timing of these sentiments was also distressing: after less than a week in Cambridge, newcomers were first asked to imagine hostile upperclassmen and then asked to avoid those upperclassmen, encouraging an artificial chasm in the student body. This attempt at ostracism is unbefitting a Harvard student, a student of any institution, and most generally, a human being. Moreover, The Crimson Staff assumed a universal resentment of the freshmen, which is false...
...some may never return at all. Eric Belsky, a lecturer in urban planning at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, imagines a chasm between the rich and the poor in a post-Katrina New Orleans, with those lacking insurance unable to recreate their former way of life...
...Despite the rhetorical chasm, protestors on either side had much in common. They shared the stifling heat, they listened to the parents of the fallen, they prayed, they sang, they drank thousands of bottles of water, they ate free barbecue and bought fifty cent chocolate covered cupcakes on main street. There was even the odd ecumenical note on a bumper sticker: "God Bless Everyone-no exceptions...