Word: gap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Likability Gap. To prove that he can win, Nixon must thus enter every primary in sight. His aides are planning an all-out effort in his behalf in New Hampshire's March 12 first-in-the-na-tion primary, and are looking into the Wisconsin, Nebraska and Oregon contests. They acknowledge that Nixon suffers from a "likability gap," and that might prove his greatest drawback. Nixon, who has yet to live down the 1960 campaign slur "Would you buy a used car from this man?" may be the Republican least capable of exploiting Johnson's personality gap...
...data demonstrate the gap between potential and performance, Among the total sample, it was the psychiatric dropouts who showed the largest gap between prl and actual rank list
...gap in his mind between his ideal self, and what he now sees as his real self manifests itself in severe depression," the psychiatrist observed...
Depression can so severely curtail the gifted student's academic function- ing that he has to dropout, he continued. "Thus, the intra-psychic gap between his ideal image of self and his real image leads to a gap between his intellectual potential and performance," he said...
Even as the Administration was feeling the discomfort of an economic credibility gap on Capitol Hill, it received some good news from the private sector. On Wednesday, New York's Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. reduced the prime interest rate that it charges its best business customers from 5¾% to 5½%. Coming almost two months to the clay since the Chase Manhattan set off a controversy by cutting its prime rate to the same level, Morgan's action is expected to be followed by most of the country's commercial banks. Their action, it is hoped...