Word: gap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...real solution to Europe's largely self-inflicted technology gap is up to the Europeans. It is to mesh the Continent's money, manpower and management by tearing down the old nationalistic walls that divide its markets, restrict competition and protect inefficiency. That prescription is already obvious to almost everybody in the Atlantic Community-except, of course, De Gaulle. "We must become modern in our heads, not only in our gadgets," says Olivetti Managing Director Aurelio Peccei. "It is inconceivable that we in Europe are still bound by the nation-state concept...
...meantime, the only course for the U.S. seems to be to help narrow the gap in what limited ways it can, but keep up the competitive heat. Real progress often grows out of crises...
...Netherlands' N.V. Philips' Lamp, says ironically: "If America really wants to do something, let it start introducing different currencies in all the 50 states and impose serious boundaries between them. If this experiment were tried, ten or 15 years from now we might well bridge the gap...
...vous plaît. To fit properly, the long-sleeved mini-Shetlands should not quite reach to the wrists. This summer, the waist was high enough to leave a patch of midriff showing. Now that it is winter, the style is long and sometimes belted; the naked visibility gap exists only while the wearer is doing the boogaloo...
...credibility gap widens in How I Spent My Summer Vacation, in which a social-climbing bum (Robert Wagner) cadges an Onassis-style cruise of the Greek islands from Multimillionaire Peter Lawford and Daughter Jill St. John. Once aboard, he detects dead fish in Lawford's bullion and bumbles off in search of the source. Lest the implausibility of it all seem unimportant, all traces of wit, style, imagination, intelligence or any other compensation have been carefully expunged. So too in Doomsday Flight, in which it is revealed that a self-pitying psychopath (Edmond O'Brien) has placed...