Word: gap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hard to feel that Mrs. Bunting did not deserve it. Her motives for forming the RPC were probably the best: she is aware of the communications gap between the administration and the students and realizes that something must be done if drastic measures such as last spring's hunger strike are to be prevented...
Even in a town's later stages, the corporation is often unresponsive to the population's needs. The bulk of corporation employees are middle-class, while most town residents are working-class. This social gap, highlighted by corporation executives' reluctance to live in the new town, may lead to a breakdown of communications between the two groups. In many towns, residents have had to fight furiously to acquire facilities as elementary as public telephones or street lighting...
...conference, suggested by Johnson last fall and chaired by Cornell University President James Perkins, devoted five days to work sessions designed to set up priorities for closing the educational gap between the schools of developed and underdeveloped countries. The private talks tended to turn into what one participant termed "a brilliant exchange of misunderstandings" -mainly over what Britain's Barbara Ward called "a sense of tension between the Americans who are managers and the Europeans who are humanists." Generally, the argument was over whether a nation's educational system can be evaluated as a whole by comparing...
...contact. Because Vietnam was always considered the property of the French, it was largely ignored by American scholarship, and Huntington feels that a backlog of literature and of "old Vietnam hands" in the State Department might have significantly contributed to understanding in the early stage of American commitment. "This gap in knowledge and understanding has directly contributed to the shrillness and superficiality of much of the debate over American policy," he wrote recently in Asian Survey...
After two study tours in an attempt to close that gap, Huntington still considers himself much more of a detached observor than an active policy maker or suggestor of policy. His dispassionate attitude toward what might conservatively be called the most dangerous world crisis in the last 25 years gives the feeling that Vietnam is, first of all, another fascinating case study, a testing ground for theory. "It's not hopeless by a longshot," Huntington remarks. "It's not too good, but it's not too bad. What we need is an awful lot of patience...