Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...balance of trade is on its way to a huge deficit of more than $4 billion this year-double last year's worrisome gap between exports and imports-in part because of Japan's modern closed-door policy. This grim analysis was made last week by Harald Malmgren, a senior member of a U.S. trade mission that met with officials in Japan to seek a way to increase American exports. The need for some kind of action soon was starkly emphasized by a Commerce Department report that the trade deficit in this year's first half...
...grandmother remarks upon arrival. "I never realized it was so close." These words imply how Ozu illustrates that "the Japanese family system has began to come apart." Tempo, life-style, mood and environment are so different in Tokyo, that the short train trip from their home creates an unsurmountable gap for the old people between their customs and the modern ways of their children. The old man looks very uncomfortable and slightly ridiculous in his Western-style travelling suit, and immediately changes into his kimono upon entering his son's house. His wife never exchanges her kimono for more occidental...
...only this, but both shows have been directed by Michael Kahn, who says they constitute "one work." They really don't, but not for want of separates the end of Caesar from the beginning of Antony, there was a gap of some seven or eight years in the writing, and the two works came out highly dissimilar dramatically and stylistically. Ceasar is austere in vocabulary, drivingly direct in line; Antony is verbally opulent and weak in plot. Caesar attempts less, does it magnificently, and is an enormously effective stage-piece; Antony embraces more than it can handle, with only intermittent...
What might trouble the Republican serenity? First, there is a credibility gap, an atmosphere of taint that reminds some observers of the last years of the Truman Administration. The cloud of ITT is in the air. So is the Republican refusal to disclose the names of those who poured $10 million, quite legally, into the G.O.P. war chest. The bugging raid on the Democratic National Committee headquarters fosters a nagging suspicion...
...There is a great gap between races. U.S. life expectancy for white males is 68.1 years, for nonwhite males a distressingly...