Word: gap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...light of it, the cubists deliberately flouted it, and abstract expressionists ignored it, perspective now seems to be staging a comeback-with a significant difference. Where the Renaissance relied on it to convey an illusion of reality,* the new painters use it as a playful device for emphasizing the gap between reality and illusion...
Something Drastic. At the meeting, the company credibility gap was hardly improved when Chairman Melvin W. Alldredge insisted that the absent Jay had retired merely "because of personal reasons." With "such an aura of mystery," complained one disbelieving stockholder, "it must have been something fairly drastic." There were some rather drastic statistics to consider. During A. &P.'s first 1968 quarter, which closed just seven days before Jay exited, profits plummeted 21 % below the 1967 first quarter. Moreover, Alldredge conceded, there was no sign of "any significant change" ahead...
...returned to their plants. In his new role as Finance Minister, Maurice Couve de Murville conceded that France not only faced a budgetary deficit of $2 billion this year but might also be forced to sell some of its $5 billion gold reserves in order to meet a looming gap in its balance of payments. It all meant, explained Foreign Minister Michel Debré, that (Quelle horreur!) France would have to cut back on De Gaulle's prized nuclear strike force...
...advantage for foreign companies, particularly Japanese, is lower labor costs. In the early 1950s, U.S. steel companies paid $2 an hour more in wages and fringe benefits than their Japanese counterparts. Today, with the average steelworker receiving wages and benefits totaling $4.93 an hour, the gap has grown to about...
...implicit in Mattie's character and situation, although sometimes he is guilty of playing it a bit too quaintsy. Mattie's prowess as a horse trader, for example, is overdrawn to the point where character rides off into caricature toward a last stand at the credibility gap. And he finds it necessary to pad his dangerously thin tale with an overlong excursion into Rooster's gun-cocking past...