Word: chasms
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...their credit-card balances. Why have those rates refused to budge? The spread between what banks pay to borrow money and the interest rates they charge on credit cards has grown to nearly 14 percentage points, the widest gap since the deregulation of interest rates in 1982. The chasm has attracted both public scorn and scrutiny. Declares Stephen Brobeck, executive director of the Consumer Federation of America: "Consumers are being gouged by the banks...
Enter the man who may have finally invented a better mousetrap: political scientist James Fishkin, chairman of the government department at the University of Texas. He calls his innovative method for bridging the chasm between electors and the elected "a deliberative opinion poll." The voters will get a chance to see how it works on national public television next January...
...fact, Depardieu was always a long shot for the Oscar; no one has ever won a Best Actor award for a non-English-speaking role. And though Cyrano itself lost the Best Foreign Film award to a dark horse, such upsets are common. Still, a cultural chasm remains. Rosemary Dempsey of the National Organization for Women claims that the French reaction "trivializes the whole issue of violence against women." French author Marguerite Duras, asked about Depardieu's remarks, said dismissively, "When I was 8 1/2, I stole an apple from the garden." Depardieu, meanwhile, was on the island of Mauritius...
...healthy carriers with strong balance sheets, like American, United and Delta, and those weighed down by excessive debt from buyouts and overexpansion, such as Pan Am, Eastern, TWA and Continental. To remain aloft, the weaker carriers sold routes, planes and other assets piecemeal to their stronger competitors, widening the chasm. Desperate for cash, Pan Am offered its London routes to United for $290 million, while financially troubled TWA agreed to unload its Heathrow landing rights to American for $445 million...
...seemed until last week, when people by the tens of thousands reappeared on the streets of Moscow, Leningrad and other cities to protest military intervention in the Baltics. No event since the advent of perestroika has so polarized Soviet society as the bloodshed in Vilnius. It has widened the chasm between reformers and reactionaries, leaving almost no support for the centrist positions that Gorbachev claims to represent...