Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Something very close to guerrilla warfare at credibility gap erupted, as both critics and defenders of Nixon and Dean joined in nasty combat over the character and believability of the witness before he could take the stand. Testifying to the staff of Senator Sam Ervin's committee in private, Dean found that his words-some self-damning, some damaging to the President-leaked out and were carried across the nation. That was exactly what Mansfield had hoped to avoid, and it infuriated Dean. He refused to talk further until he could tell his story fully and carefully this week...
...spokesman for the General Services Administration, the Government department that paid the money, said, "We recognize there's quite a gap between the new figure for San Clemente and the figures we gave you before. But we were giving out information piecemeal before, and now we have a very thorough search of the record." Thorough, indeed. The GSA also announced in the same breath that $626,201 in tax money had been spent for equipment and improvements at Nixon's home at Key Biscayne...
SPEAKING at Class Day here a year ago, Tom Wicker, associate editor of The New York Times, called the wealth gap between rich and poor a major cause of violence and social unrest in this country...
Harvard's apparent inability to study the entire problem of housing before this crisis is as distressing as the actual symptoms of the system's malfunctioning. Harvard has failed to formulate long-range policy but instead has relied on often-delayed stop gap measures to partially head off greater disaster. A study of the House system and freshman assignments being conducted this summer by the dean of the College's office is inadequate without parallel action by other facets of the Administration, including among others, the University's fund raisers, planning office and freshman dean's office...
OTHER FACTORS served to widen the gap between students and working people. Suffice it to say that the union between the blue collars and the student left was based on too many misperceptions to succeed...