Word: gap
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...precisely this kind of petty deception and, on occasion, even the outright denial of the obvious, that has given rise to what the Washington press corps calls the President's "credibility gap." During the airline strike, for example, Johnson blandly assured the nation that Administration-backed settlement terms were within the Government's wage-price guidelines, when in fact they grossly exceeded them. A few days before L.BJ. announced his proposals to combat inflation and tight money, he stoutly denied that he was planning any such action-though his economic advisers had been working for days to formulate...
...plug the teaching gap, Detroit has sent assistant principals and guidance counselors into 102 of its classrooms...
...federal programs can be largely blamed for this year's troubles, long-range pressures are also squeezing the teaching profession. College graduates who choose teaching are turning in increasing numbers to jobs with the greatest prestige, those in colleges and high schools, leaving a growing grammar school gap. High school teachers tend to move up to junior colleges, which employ more than 65,000 as compared with 26,000 five years ago. Contending that elementary teachers have a far more profound influence on students than college teachers, James E. Russell, secretary of the N.E.A.'s Educational Policies Commission...
...thing, Douglas Jay, president of Britain's Board of Trade, reported that the nation's trade gap-the difference between high imports and low exports-was down from $295 million in July to $193 million in August, for the best showing since February. Part of the improvement could be attributed to the resumed shipment of exports after Britain's 45-day seamen's strike. But Jay, a 59-year-old economist, thought there was more to the story than that. He felt that the drastic measures recently imposed by Prime Minister Harold Wilson to hold down...
...scientific or scientifically oriented book in any language on the general subject of physical violence and its prevention," complains Clinical Psychiatrist Wertham, 71, in the opening pages of this profoundly indignant inquiry into man's inhumanity to man. A Sign for Cain aims at filling the gap. It tamps aphorism, anecdote and erudition into stinging whiffs of grapeshot that splay across the whole range of contemporary thought and life. Wertham's thesis is that no murder, no rape, no senseless act of destruction is ever an iso lated, spontaneous event even when it is the product...