Word: gaps
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...other than these two courses, there are none others, and in one world area, the course lack is particularly bad. This is South America. Here the gap is not due to G.E.'s inability to keep up with changing events. Rather, G.E., like the many State Department policy-makers and the North American press generally, has completely overlooked this crucial world section...
...buildup, the budget asks Congress for substantially less new spending authority ($72.9 billion) than was requested in any of the last three years. Reason for this reduction: the tremendous carryover of spending authority for military equipment, granted by Congress in earlier years but not used because of the great gap between orders and delivery...
Bull and Bear members feel their organization fills a definite gap in the Law School curriculum. They cite the fact that even Law School courses on corporations and business are taught from the legal angle and do not provide practical business knowledge. And although many students are only studying law as a background for a business career, courses across the river at the Business School are open only to third-year...
...keep on or we might be flung into the river. So I accelerated." Up and up slowly went the bridge span; on and on Albert drove his bus. At the end of the span, Albert, his conductor and all 20 passengers soared off into space, leaped the widening gap and landed with a horrendous thump on the southern span six feet below. "I thought that might start going up too," said Albert, "so I just kept right on till I got to the other bank...
Frederick William Serafino Austin Lewis Mary Rolfe, alias Baron Corvo, was born in 1860 with (it would appear) a hole in his head. It was by no means the usual cranial gap of infancy but, according to those who had felt it, a "perceptible hole." Though markedly intelligent, he never caught hold at school. He quit at 15 and bounced about such places as Oxford, probably on allowance from his father, a piano manufacturer. At 26, after taking a few places as schoolmaster, he was converted to Roman Catholicism and entered preparation for the priesthood...