Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...folksy charm, Carter, 50, bears a slight physical resemblance to John F. Kennedy. He was one of the major formulators of party strategy this year as chairman of the Democrats' National Campaign Committee. One of the chief political figures to show concern about erasing the remaining gap between black and white in the modern South, Carter as Governor has become a symbol of the moderate shift in Southern politics...
...third period began with Harvard down 4-1. But with Brown shorthanded, Charlie Peterson spotted an opening and fired a rebound home to close the gap...
...There is a gap between actual and potential full-employment GNP of from $50 to $75 billion," Eckstein said. "Even taking the conservative figure and a multiplier of around two, the stimulus has to be at least $25 billion, not the $4 or $5 billion the Administration is talking about...
...while today transactions are on a more complex level, the classic mercantile relationship--finished goods traded by developed nations for natural resources supplied by developing nations--remains intact, and the worldwide gap between rich and poor widens. By 1970, says MIT economics professor Paul Rosenstein-Roden, the per capita income of the poorest countries was one-fortieth that of the rich countries. And Robert McNamara, president of the World Bank, predicts that by the year 2000 "masses of the poor (who by that time will total two and one quarter billion) will on average receive less than $200 per capita...
...light, printing-are soaring. The Union of American Hebrew Congregations glumly reports that costs in some cases have risen four to five times as fast as synagogue dues over the past several years. But response to appeals for higher dues during the High Holy Days has almost closed the gap...