Word: chasms
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...grassroots supporters - a charge that made his position untenable given Israel's continued war against Palestinian militants and the absence he felt of vital support from the U.S. And so Abbas simply walked away from what most observers had concluded months ago was an impossible mission: bridging the chasm between Yasser Arafat and the grassroots militants of the West Bank and Gaza, on the one hand, and Ariel Sharon and George W. Bush on the other...
...rise above India's noisy democracy. Last year, with his rightist rivals ascendant, Vajpayee more or less retired from public view. But after the fundamentalists reached their high-tide mark last December with the re-election of the ultra-hard-line Narendra Modi as Gujarat's Chief Minister, a chasm opened in the center of Indian politics that only Vajpayee could fill. Last month, when BJP president Venkaiah Naidu suggested that Deputy Prime Minister Advani should lead the party into a general election jointly with Vajpayee, the PM merely had to threaten to resign and Naidu backed down, apologized...
...sense there had been a chasm that was unbridgeable [between students and faculty],” said Professor of the History of Science Everett I. Mendelsohn, a member of the Leaning Committee, at the May 6 Faculty meeting. “That has begun to change...
Maddox’s literary agent in America, Ellen Levine, says that Maddox has a particular talent for “accessible writing—you don’t get a distance or chasm that you often get when writers are very serious about their revered biographical subjects...
...sense there had been a chasm that was unbridgeable [between students and Faculty],” said Professor of the History of Science Everett I. Mendelsohn, a committee member who said that the students’ positive reaction to the findings was heartening. “That has begun to change...