Word: gap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...answer fills 737 densely-packed pages. Coleman started by documenting the achievement gap between minority and majority children (Negroes, though of prime interest, were only one of several minority groups studied). To no one's surprise, he found minority children enter school at a lower achievement level than their majority counterparts, and fall further behind as their schooling progress. Coleman also discovered, again shocking few, that segregation is still the rule in U.S. schools. Sixtyfive per cent of all Negroes, and 80 per cent of all whites, attend schools filled 90 per cent by their own race...
Ironically enough, it was Szaro who put Harvard in position to try the final kick. After Fred Martucci picked off a Yale pass midway through the fourth period, Szaro rambled 37 yards for a touchdown to narrow the gap...
Angry Sheiks. Last week's turmoil began with the disclosure of Britain's trade figures for October, which showed a gross deficit of nearly $300 million, the worst such monthly gap in the country's history. That in itself was certainly ominous enough, but the context in which the deficit emerged made the figures far worse...
Federal subsidies for on-the-job training programs (OJT), especially since the cutbacks due to the Vietnam War, do not fill the training gap. Gopen points out that there are now only 380 individual contracts for OJT available...
Restless Entrepreneur Norton Simon has yet to find the all-purpose chief executive for Hunt Foods & Industries. Recently, Simon replaced President Francis Fabian, 52, an operations expert who served him for about two years. Into the gap went William E. McKenna, 48, a smooth-talking senior vice president from Litton Industries with an accounting background and a Harvard Business School degree. Simon makes no bones about the reason for the change: he wants to expand his empire of subsidiaries and affiliates, which already includes McCall Corp., Hunt-Wesson Foods, Inc., Knox Glass Inc., Canada Dry Corp. and Crucible Steel Corp...