Word: gap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...something more than antagonism to the system, to a governing body or to capitalism. You can see it, feel it. The gap gets wider. Maybe it's the whole pointlessness of the human condition that breeds this weird and hostile detachment...
...Johnson Administration's plagues, none was so virulent as the credibility gap. Yet last week Washington witnessed one of those painful rituals in which the White House was forced to acknowledge-after earlier evasions -that the President had, after all, been personally involved in the dismissal of murder charges against the Green Berets...
Closing the Gap. MIST's concept and operation are simple, but its effects are far-reaching. Begun as a pilot study that covered only four counties in Alabama, the project is now bringing the advice of medical specialists even to some of the most remote corners of the state. The idea was developed late last year by the Alabama Medical College dean, Dr. Clifton K. Meador, whose experience as a physician in Selma, Ala., had led him to believe that there were serious "defects in the communications between physicians and med ical centers." Meador decided to close that gap...
Moreover, no one accuses Ziegler of creating an affability gap. Over cocktails, or throwing a football around at San Clemente, reporters find his company a pleasure. His easygoing nature is a rarity among White House staffers, and even his most muffled answers are often accompanied by a disarming smile that makes him look like a twelve-year-old playing a prank. "In the Johnson days, we would have screamed credibility gap," says Don Bacon of the Newhouse newspapers. "You can be mad as hell at him, but the son of a gun breaks into that grin, and you forget...
...week's end. Traders saw new hope that the combination of the recent 12.5% French devaluation and an eventual German revaluation would add up to almost a 20% shift in the official values of the two currencies-making the difference in their formal exchange rates accurately reflect the gap in their real worth. The British pound, which used to sink on any hint of monetary uncertainty, rose last week. Britain's success in achieving a balance of payments surplus this year has strengthened a growing conviction that the pound might really be worth its $2.40 official value...