Word: gap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...advisory committee, including Jacqueline Kennedy and five other friends of the family, meets biannually to discuss the institute, but has no authority over its staff or the school of government. Both Harvard officials and Kennedy friends insist that the institute's nonpartisan goal is to fill a significant gap in the academic world. In essence, it has been designed as a temporary center of intellectual refreshment for the modern breed of academic activist whose real love is to make and execute federal policy-yet who also cannot live too long without some contact with the world of ideas...
...request included $18,500 to fill the gap between the Association's fixed expenses and its predictable income,e, plus $2,500 for a second half-time secretary. PBHA's fixed expenses for basic operation and for part-time professional consultants amount to $42,210 annually, while-its assured income is only...
...heavy budget, Johnson is certain to come under attack. Many of his fellow Democrats are angry at his emphasis on the military at the expense of welfare programs. The G.O.P., unhappy at the prospect of an $8.1 billion deficit on top of this year's projected $9.7 billion gap between intake and outgo, insists that more domestic programs must...
Dominating Issue. Harold Wilson puts forward a more inclusive vision. British entry into the Common Market would mean a bigger, potentially far more powerful Europe, adding to the Market 54 million more customers. Britain's science-based industries would help the Continental nations close the techno logical gap with the U.S. Its participation would pave the way for the eventual inclusion in the Market of most, if not all, of the other EFTA nations with which Britain is now economically allied. That would boost the Market's population to more than 250 million, give Europe an economic might...
...mile Olympic-style course, in seas so heavy that spectator boats turned back. An old hand at match racing (he was Gretel's helmsman in 1962), Dame Pattie's Skipper Jock Sturrock caught Gretel going the wrong way at the start and gradually widened the gap to 1 min. 54 sec.-mostly during the beats to windward, in which Gretel hobbyhorsed badly while Dame Pattie slid smoothly through the crashing swells. It was the second race, in smooth seas and light winds, that certified Dame Pattie as a "flyer." Once again, Sturrock beat Gretel's skipper, Archie...