Word: gap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...liberal crusade is that it might work. Then we'll have more efficient channelling of ghetto children into vocational high schools and onto the working class, Harvard men will still be the elite, reaping even greater rewards from the more efficient system, the rich will be richer, the gap will be greater...
...stroke, the Government's proposals would both raise the living standards of many poor people, particularly in the South, and reduce the gap between generous and ungenerous states. The disparity, already serious, became crucial last week when the Supreme Court rejected as unconstitutional state residency requirements for welfare. Unless the Federal Government does something?and soon?the more lenient states may attract many more welfare applicants in search of higher benefits, compounding the troubles in the ghettos and adding to the cities' already intolerable financial burdens...
...month of Crisis at Harvard, however, Calkins has been hard to miss. Taking up the gap left by President Pusey's artless press releases in the first few days of the strike, Calkins has seemingly turned himself into a one-man public-relations agency for the Harvard Administration...
Princeton went into a 38 stroke sprint, but couldn't close the gap as Harvard loafed home pulling...
...water every morning," Leander counseled his sons. "Relish the love of a gentle woman. Trust in the Lord." Yet literary means, like wars and prices, tend to escalate. In Bullet Park, trying to cope with up-to-date exurban alarums and filial excursions-including creeping despair and the generation gap -has widened farther than ever the consistent gap between Cheever's surface realism and the bizarre events and distorted perspectives of the moral allegories he pursues...