Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more than 24,000. Yet no sooner are their bunks emptied than others arrive to replace them, with some 40,000 refugees backed up and still to come from Guam. A fifth camp, which will eventually hold 15,000 refugees, opened last week at a military post at Indiantown Gap, Pa., to help handle the problem...
...gap that separates the poor from the affluent has been a prime source of tension, division and violence in American life. A critical challenge for politicians and economists alike has long been to try to find a way to soften the harsher injustices of U.S. capitalism without crippling it. That is the central dilemma that Economist Arthur Okun faces in an eminently readable, slim new book, Equality and Efficiency: The Big Tradeoff, published by the Brookings Institution in Washington...
Sources in the Sociology Department said yesterday that Lipset's departure left a "major gap," and that the department's main task next year would be to make plans to fill Lipset's position and possibly expand the department's faculty...
...rapid a rise in production would still leave the economy operating well below its capacity. IBM Vice President David Grove figures that real G.N.P. this year will run 15% below what it could be if the economy used its resources of plant, materials and manpower to full potential. The gap between actual and potential output, he calculates, will shrink only to 13% next year, and even to 11% by 1977. At its peak, in the third quarter of 1973, production was running at less than 2% below capacity...
...more than 50 years earlier. But simple reality meant little to Hicks-he was a man obsessed with his Utopia. Sometimes Hicks places this Utopia in an imaginary place, sometimes at Virginia's Natural Bridge (which Hicks never saw but adopted from an engraving), or the Delaware Water Gap (which he may not have seen either). He certainly had never seen the grave of his idol William Penn, who was eventually buried at Jordans, in Buckinghamshire, 30 miles northwest of London. With typical disregard for mere historical fact, Hicks has substituted a hedge for the wall that surrounds...