Word: gap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clearly there is a substantial gap between Hudgins's preaching and the actual contribution which Freedom National has made to Harlem. But it is too easy simply to cry hypocrisy and exploitation of race sympathy. The gap may be the result of sound business decisions. Even if Hudgins and the other Negro directors genuinely desire to help Harlem, their good intentions cannot overcome the real financial difficulties which Negro-oriented banks everywhere face. Because of the low levels of income of most Harlem residents, individual family checking or saving accounts are very small, usually less than $1000. A small account...
Bordinat also sees the '67s as "Italianesque." Maybe like Sophia? No, like Ferrari. Many of them will also look considerably like the Mustang-the one car of the 1960s that dared to be different and, as a result, helped Ford to close its sales gap with the rival Chevrolet Division to a 1.2% difference in market penetration...
...third, the current political style does not encourage anti-University harangues for their own sake. John F. Kennedy is cited as one man who bridged the University-City gap and made it less respectable to criticize one at the expense of the other. "As the educational institutions have grown," observes one long-time official, "politicians have read the hand-writing on the wall: they know that the institutions are becoming generally more influential...
...ounces (later three ounces; then possibly less than half an ounce) of marijuana in his car. The Ed School adopts almost all the proposals its faculty committee put forward in September. An expedition co-sponsored by the Peabody Museum discovers two 10,000-year-old Indian huts in Hell Gap, Wyo. They are the oldest known houses in the Western hemisphere...
...capitalistic competition amused the Communists, but they could understand it. The East bloc is at least five years behind the West in computer technology and, until the gap is closed, intends to order equipment from the West. Czechoslovakia alone has earmarked $145 million for computer purchases...