Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quadruple the 1974 consumption, and they spend $25 billion per year on their pleasure. Mexico provided most of the best marijuana until two years ago, when the government there began cracking down on drug smugglers and spraying marijuana fields with the herbicide paraquat. Colombia moved rapidly to fill the gap. It now provides roughly two-thirds of all the pot smoked in the U.S. "Colombia is the largest supplier of marijuana in the world," says Peter Bensinger, head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. "It's a trafficker's paradise...
...shorthanded tally by Bobby Schmautz less than two minutes later closed the gap to one, but clutch goaltending by Glenn "Chico" Resch frustrated the Bruins the rest of the game. New York's Garry Howatt sealed the victory with an open-net goal...
...defense spending gap is most dramatically reflected in what has been happening to the superpowers' nuclear arsenals. Since 1967 the U.S. has deployed only one new intercontinental ballistic missile, the triple-warhead Minuteman III. During the same period, Moscow has introduced three generations of new ICBMs. Even the dovish Brookings Institution has admitted that it finds the Soviet buildup worrisome...
Economists argue that private colleges are as affordable as ever, since aftertax income has risen as fast as tuition, or faster. Yet by that reckoning, public colleges are a bigger bargain than ever, since the gap between public and private student tuition has grown from $416 yearly in 1956 to more than $2,000 today. The four-year premium for a private B.A., a sum approaching $8,000, is large indeed...
...aquawomen closed the gap to five points as Adele Joel clocked a 1:11.36 to take first in the 100-yd. breaststroke, and Barbara Niles came in second (1:15.83) with her best time of the season...