Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second part of The Motion Picture describes the Enterprise crew's interception and final solution to the problem. The first half seems aimlessly tacked on. The writer and producer thought it necessary to explain the ten year gap between the last episode of the Star Trek television series and The Motion Picture. The resulting footage is not only unwieldy and expensive (a five-minute sequence involving the Starfleet's San Francisco headquarters must have cost at least $2 million) but also damages the rest of the show--the half-hour wasted on James T. Kirk's procession to the Enterprise...
After ten minutes of breathless back and forth scoring did not change the tenpoint gap between the squads, the Springfiled coach called a time out. Chanthing "boards, boards, boards" like an obsessed pre-law adviser, the Springfiled coach unleashed an inspired Chiefs team that systematically narrowed Harvard's lead, closing to withing four points with 1:18 left to play...
NATO's deployment of theater nuclear forces is thus viewed as a means of closing a dangerous gap in the West's deterrence. Says a leading British official: "The reason for NATO modernizing its nuclear forces is that we have to fill a position between the tactical Lance missile [a short-range mobile missile] and the big bang. We cannot make counterthreats credible without theater nuclear weapons." Notes American Defense Analyst Gregory Treverton of the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies: "It is important to remember that deterrence is a combination of will and weaponry. Weapons...
Unfortunately, not all went well for the revamped squad. The big disappointment of the evening was the loss of another veteran. Mark Cocalis. The regular at 167-lbs. Cocalis had gamely moved down to 158 to fill the gap left after the loss of Mason. He suffered his own injury when B.U.'s Kevin Eagleton resorted to a brutal, twisting hammerlock. Eagleton was disqualified, but the real loss was Harvard's. Cocalis will spend the next few weeks recuperating from a dislocated shoulder...
...media had less to say about the 60 per cent of adults left illiterate, and the increasing income gap which made Iran one of the world's most unequal societies. Little was heard about the royal family's financial scandals and their heroin smuggling on a global scale...