Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...education. Despite all the recent efforts to enroll minority-group students, a forthcoming report by the Ford Foundation says that the number of black students will have to increase by 116% before black and white America have the same proportion of their children in college. For other minorities the gap is still more dramatic. If they are to pull abreast of whites, enrollment of Puerto Ricans will have to grow by 225%, Mexican Americans by 330% and American Indians...
...students contacted at the Ed School yesterday praised Weller highly. First year student Vincente F. Simone said, "It may sound like a sales pitch but Weller's door was, in fact, always open. His leaving is definitely going to leave a gap...
Radcliffe give Harvard the income from her endowment, her current gifts and her entire tuition revenue. In exchange, Harvard accepts joint responsibility to close the gap (estimated this year at $250,000) between this income and the amount Radcliffe needs to meet her expenses. Harvard will provide the balance only under two conditions: 1) that the budget for specific Radcliffe activities such as admissions and financial aid be reviewed by a joint Harvard-Radcliffe Committee, and that should Radcliffe fund-raising fall below an agreed amount, Radcliffe activities suffer accordingly...
Clarkson roared back for three quick goals in the space of four minutes, but DeMichele narrowed the gap to one at 8:30, bombing a slapshot after taking a feed from Cavanagh...
...later as 100 killed, 145 wounded and 78 missing. South Viet Nam claimed a victory nonetheless, citing 623 North Vietnamese killed. U.S. reports were also suspect, and some information officers were openly scornful of what was being pumped out to the press. "There can't be a credibility gap," scoffed one, "when there's no credibility...