Word: gap
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FORTUNE AND MEN'S EYES is a revival of the 1967 prison drama, restaged by Hollywood Actor Sal Mineo in a version calculated to close what he must feel is a sadomasochism gap. Filled with the sight and sound of faces being beaten bloody, genitals being punched, bodies being raped, slugged, tossed and twisted in agony, this latest entry to homosexual theater is a carefully placed kick in the groin...
...gap between Left and Right now seems utterly unbridgeable. Nixon and the Mobe each has its strategy, each dismayingly obscure. We are pawns in a game with uncertain rules and rewards...
...understand the polities of the urban fiscal crisis, it is crucial to recognize that a fiscal gap can occur regardless of the portion of wealth in the City...
Mayor Lindsay, in his Policy Statement accompanying the latest Executive Budget, outlined a multiple adjustment (and received, as expected, a multiple response): "To close the ($600 million) gap has required a series of measures. First, the budget was cut ($276 million). Second, State aid to the City has been substantially increased ($220 million). Third, new and additional taxes will be necessary. Fourth, I am recommending that user charges and fees for certain services he adjusted to a full cost basis. Fifth, there are in addition numerous funding shifts...
EVERY December prior to the enactment of the New York State budget, John Lindsay has trekked to Albany to bang his head on the legislative wall. This past year he pleaded for help with his expected "gap in the budget" of over $500 million. Governor Rockefeller, "although expressing sympathy for New York City's fiscal problems," said he could not help Mr. Lindsay, for he too had a gap in his budget-$700 million...