Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fourth. Gasoline shortages would range between 2% and 5% for the rest of this year, and residual oil used to power electric generators would fall a dangerous 13% below demand in the months immediately ahead. On the other hand, FEO analysts reckon, with effective conservation the gap between supply and demand for all petroleum products would be only 3% in the current quarter and a mere 1 % in the third and fourth. No gasoline shortage at all would exist in the second half of 1974, and scarcities of residual oil would amount to no more than...
Paley's fiction is intensely urban. Most of her stories are about women in domestic circumstances. In Faith in the Afternoon, a harried housewife goes to visit her parents at the Children of Judea home for the aged near Coney Island and learns that the generation gap is measured in inches. In Wants, a woman concludes that her 27-year marriage ended mostly because of her lack of simple, binding covetousness...
...Turtle" Thomas, who leads the team in the number of times hit by an opposing pitch, then came up with a clutch double to right scoring O'Malley and Durso to narrow the gap to one. That's when Tipton, anxious not to leave Cambridge without that magic number 200, yanked Koontz in favor of Mike Pantaloni...
Crimson starter Milt Holt breathed through the first seven innings, allowing only four hits, while Crimson batters piled up a 7-1 lead. However, a four run Bruin uprising in the eighth on two hits, three walks and two hit batsmen narrowed the gap to 7-5 and sent Holt to the showers to set the stage for Walsh's heroics...
...course of cautious liberalism the next month when it withdrew academic credit from ROTC, though voting down at the same time an SDS-backed proposal to expel ROTC completely. But a week after the ROTC vote, a new controversy struck the Faculty much closer to home and widened the gap between the Faculty and student radicals...