Word: gap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rather than anticipating an event. Administration officials would have done better to acknowledge earlier on their own initiative what every military expert has long known was inevitable: that some civilians would be killed in U.S. raids. In failing to do so, they not only helped to widen the "credibility gap," which is already causing Lyndon Johnson considerable trouble at home, but enabled Hanoi to use the Salisbury reports to stir up a virulent new round of anti-Americanism from London to New Delhi. Even France's normally prudent Le Monde declared that "not a day passes but that...
...best of our young people are deeply disturbed by much that they see: the cynical conduct of our foreign affairs, the gap between civil rights legislation and reality, the spreading cancer of gross materialism and dehumanization in a shrinking world in which millions are starving, and a grade system perverted to act as a threat to those who stand in the shadow of the draft board...
Impossible Price. One basic reason for the widened gap is the fact that East German Party Boss Walter Ulbricht has imposed an impossible price for any further dealings with Bonn. Whereas he was willing to negotiate before on an informal basis, Ulbricht now refuses to talk unless the West Germans decide to give official recognition to his regime-and, in the process, accept the principle that Germany must remain divided. There is another reason for the freeze: Pankow wants absolutely nothing to do with Herbert Wehner, Bonn's new Minister of All-German Affairs...
...trust and liking of the hypercritical Washington press corps after he took over from the ailing George Reedy in 1965. Like everyone else, he did not find Lyndon Johnson exactly easy to work for. Lately he has been upset by the widening of Johnson's credibility gap; Moyers passed the word to all reporters, for instance, that the President would campaign furiously after his return from Asia, then had to remain mute when Johnson denied that he had ever planned...
...longer housing stays in its slump, the more explosive its comeback should be. The rapidly widening gap between production and demand is already helping to drive up rents in some cities, and there is worry in Washington that actual housing shortages may appear by mid-1967. When the pent-up market finally makes itself felt, the resulting housing rebound could well pump new steam into the whole U.S. economy...