Word: gap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decisive element is how long the gap between gold's monetary price and its free-market price remains small. For the present, the latest $2 billion of gold to reach private hands creates a price-depressing oversupply in the market. If the free price rises to $45 per oz. or more, as some European moneymen predict, it may tempt some nations to sell official gold for the profit. Hoping to prevent that, the U.S. last week made it clear that its gold window will be shut to governments that refuse to cooperate with the new system. Could a central...
WITH THE cry "student power" ringing round the world, Radcliffe, in its own quiet, slightly bored way, is about to witness a determined attempt to bridge the generation gap...
...strong start put Pringle out in front. After 150 yards he was in solid possession of second place, two yards behind Chadsey and four feet ahead of Yurow. Then in the last length Pringle began to tire. The rested Yurow started to close the gap. With ten yards to go only inches separated the two, and the inches were rapidly disappearing. But Pringle proved to be the champion, touching out Yurow by one-tenth of a second and sending the Eastern Championship to Harvard for the first time in 24 years...
...South. In an era when many younger Americans are turning away from involvement in the democratic process, by dropping out either to psychedelia or to the nihilism of the New Left, the cool, crisply executed crusade of Gene McCarthy's "ballot children" provided heartening evidence that the generation gap is bridgeable-politically, at least...
Even with such sales, NCR still has only about a 2% share of the U.S. computer market v. the overwhelming 70% held by IBM. To narrow the gap, and to climb a few steps over other computer makers, Oelman has set what he calls a "minimum sales quota" of 5,000 Centurys worth $1 billion to be sold or rented during the next five years (initial orders last week: 208). One way NCR hopes to meet the quota is through improved technology. The company's laboratories have developed a new kind of memory system, which uses thin-film rods...