Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inevitably affects the way people behave. The fact that the camera is also wielded by a father cannot help influencing the behavior of a son, particularly if the father is, like Lipscomb, a skilled sailor. Before Four Winds could cross the equator, it had to get over the generation gap...
...Ford's staff as legislative assistant and quickly won his boss's admiration for his willingness to work long hours, his avid embrace of conservative principles and his skill as a writer. Hartmann proudly recalls how he helped gore the Democratic Administration by exploiting the phrase "credibility gap" and by publicizing the number of Government contracts given to some of President Johnson's chief financial backers. During those years Hartmann also wrote position papers on legislative issues for the Republican House leaders. "We called them Constructive Republican Alternative Programs," he says, "which formed the acronym CRAP...
...President Horner's major visible accomplishments of her first year in office--is, very simply, your friend. Headed by Judith Walzer and staffed by Connie Gersick and Shannon Randall, the office is Radcliffe's built-in insurance that administrators and students will not stare at each other across a gap, but will regularly interact...
...which is the Soviet navy's sole access to the Mediterranean from the Black Sea. "No question that Greece has been considered a key part of the common southern defense system," says a U.S. military expert. "Just look at a map. How do you bridge the huge military gap between Italy and Turkey...
...picture that emerges from Seifer's study is at once grim and quietly optimistic. In 1955, full-time women workers earned 64 per cent of the average full-time salary for men. Rather than narrowing, the gap is getting wider. In 1972, women earned only 59 per cent as much as men. And predictably enough, it is the blue-collar women workers, who can least afford to, who have shouldered the lion's share of that inequity. And as Seifer details, they have shouldered even more--the deadly tedium of the only kind of jobs they can get, and their...