Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...defend them. If they had been exposed to serious questioning and hammered at by skeptics and asked, for example, "What makes you think the Russians are going to have a thousand bombers?" If they had been required to show their evidence, we would never have had that "bomber gap...
Brown Closes Gap...
...truth acknowledged. The American public is so removed from political decision-making that the truth could be denied them for two and a half decades. Nixon did not judge his constituency unperceptively in invading Laos on a weekend when football scores dominated the headlines. Nixon relies on the gap between the people and the center of power. Covering up the consequential alienation becomes his most difficult task...
...West Germans, however, wound up with an important short-term advantage. After the mark had started floating last May, it rose as much as 12% above the franc, which was purposely held fairly steady by Paris. Thus the narrower gap created by the new rates actually puts West German exporters in a better position vis-è-vis their French competitors than they have enjoyed in recent months...
STILWELL AND THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE IN CHINA, 1911-45, by Barbara W. Tuchman. American military and diplomatic blunders and the rarely sweet, often sour effects of the culture gap between the U.S. and China during World...