Word: gap
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...independence in 1956 he became simultaneously Ambassador to the U.S., Ambassador to Canada and Tunisia's permanent representative to the U.N.; in 1961, by a vote of 96-0, he was elected president of the General Assembly and for the next year labored diligently to bridge the gap between East and West...
Until recently, European monetary markets were constantly unsettled by the 15% to 20% gap between the French franc, which had been overvalued, and the mark, which had been undervalued. Taking into consideration the removal of the year-old 4% "quasi-revaluation" tax on German exports, Germany's actions last week, combined with France's devaluation in August, closed this gap and added a new stability to the world of money. England's Financial Times commented: "There is a better chance now than for many months past that the exchange markets will settle down to a quieter...
...building, financed and built by the Roscoe Pound-American Trial Lawyers Foundation, now centralizes services of the Foundation, an educational and research branch of the ATLA, and the Association itself, which tries to bridge the gap between law school and law practice...
There was one central point that all three of us tried to make during that interview. Since Hyland's report creatively omits any reference to that central point, let me use this space to fill in the gap. In brief, there isn't any Center line of policy, nor any Center brand of polities. According to your taste, you can try to pin a label on the Center by emphasizing the names of Bowie or MacEwen or Hoffman or Bowles or Huntington. All have taken shelter and sustenance from the Center. But if you tried to pin a common label...
...gap between May's thinking and student politics is consistent with his relatively conservative theory of foreign policy. May would deny that American policy is purposefully planned to protect investments or markets. No administration, May wrote in 1967, "ever has a coherent scheme or an overall plan." There are only some underlying tendencies "which give a basis for predicting how individual cabinet members or the President are likely to react." One of the "tendencics," he acknowledges, is the lobbying of Embassy staff for protection of local investment. "The people who have economic interests in a country are the clientele...