Word: gap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dropping to a 39 for the next 12 strokes Harvard settled at a 36 1/2 for the first 1000 meters and the Crimson widened its margin to two lengths by the midpoint of the race. Brown tried to close the gap in the third quarter when Harvard fell to a 35 1/2, but the Crimson responded with a 37 for the final 500 meters and it was all over for the Bruins. The Scarlet Knights were out of it from the start...
...past two years the Generalissimo has told his people that the struggle against Mao's regime must be political rather than military. In such a contest he obviously needs a revitalized, rejuvenated party, one that not only presents an attractive image abroad but that can also bridge the gap between the 2,000,000 mainlanders on the island and the 11 million native Taiwanese...
...Chinese Communist Party Congress had hardly convened in Peking before the Soviet Union started a harsh new propaganda drive against Mao and his followers. The Soviet denunciations widened the already huge gap between the two rival Communist powers and demonstrated the Soviets' deep fear of the erstwhile ally...
...response to the Jensen article commissioned by Harvard's Review. "But this is not to say that the magnitude and direction of genetic racial differences are predictable." In American society, he adds, the environmental difference between being black and being white could of itself account for the IQ gap...
...Jensen, of 38 pairs of identical white twins. Separated in infancy, these twins were reared in different environments. Gottesman and Shields found that, since the twins were presumed to be genetic equals, the environmental factor alone must have accounted for a spread of 14 IQ points-almost the same gap that separates black and white...