Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...miles without fall ing apart is one problem. Another is meeting costly, complex Government require ments that carmakers consider an outrageous cross to bear. "When you think of all the things the industry has to do to get a car on the market, you realize what a gap there is," says Nattress. The words sound more reassuring from an independent academician. Convinced, however, that Detroit is holding out on him about the fuel-efficient car, the car owner asks Paisley why VW and Datsun and Honda get such good mileage and Detroit...
...opinion research firm of Yankelovich, Skelly & White Inc. is that for the first time Republican Ronald Reagan is running ahead of Carter as the choice for President. Texan John Connally, though still only the fourth choice of Republicans and independents for the G.O.P. nomination, has closed the gap with Carter, and now trails the President by only four percentage points. Senate Minority Leader Howard Baker finishes in a dead heat with Carter. Both Baker and Reagan would defeat Carter among Southern Protestants, one of the President's key constituencies...
...hope of finding evidence of primitive life forms. Pioneer also radioed data on two other Saturnian satellites (among ten known ones): lapetus, whose puzzling bright side seems to be crusted with ice, and Mimas, a similar icy moon. One surprise: there was far more debris in the wide gap between Saturn's outermost rings than could be seen from earth, but no trace of a fifth ring beyond the four known ones. At week's end the probe swept through this outer region, coming within 21,000 km (13,000 miles) of Saturn's cloud tops...
...Gap...
Concerned with bridging the gap between theory and practice. International concerns, such as South Africa, the Middle East, hunger, human rights, and nuclear proliferation, are analyzed in terms of partisan and specialized perceptions; of when to use self-help, exert influence, or engage in education; of those officials, journalists, businessmen, or others who might make a difference; of the choices they now perceive; and of ways to change those choices in order to reduce the costs of conflict, to promote one's view of justice, or both. Seeks to develop skills for deciding who should do what tomorrow morning...