Word: gap
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Highway crash research today stands approximately where the physical sciences stood two centuries ago and medicine stood fifty years ago. To move forward with any expectation of closing the gap it is essential to establish carefully elaborated and comprehensive national goals against which to measure performance...
Generation Gap...
Using the Dow incident as an example of the generation gap today, Zinberg noted the complete misunderstanding between the students and the administration. "The lack of understanding became most evident when President Pusey called the incident disgraceful, and said that no one had learned anything of importance from the episode," he explained...
...restive is the obvious difference between the rewards in the private sector and those in the public. Government pay scales often run below those paid by private industry. In Detroit, for instance, the median private hourly wage was $2.04 in 1955-against $1.79 for government workers. By 1967, the gap had widened: $3.49 to $3.09. Not many employees any longer consider it a privilege to work for the government. The job security of civil service has lost considerable point in a boom economy, where the demand for labor outstrips the supply. The effect of all this is evident...
Just as exaggerated as Carmichael, thinks Smith, is "the credibility gap," which he calls "one of the most distorting oversimplifications of the time." The President, says Smith, has to make judgments on facts that may be only partially known. "Yet we tend to call it calculated deception if he does not instantly provide conclusive facts and admit failure. If he does not keep a frozen consistency, he is held to be lying. No government ever has been run that way and none ever will...