Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...parliamentary elections next year. So far, however, the otherwise efficient Iranian regime has not been able to take advantage of its opportunities. The Shah's forward-looking Premier, Jamshid Amouzegar, had better luck coping with the problems of industrialization than negotiating with Shi'ite mullahs. Unable to bridge the gap between mullahs and modernists, the otherwise able Amouzegar resigned early this week, and the Shah quickly replaced him with Jaafar Sharif-Emami, chairman of the Iranian Senate...
Weeks before the Puzo sale, competing publishers had laid intricate game plans that many would scrap to stay in the race. Final offers from runners-up Ballantine and Pocket Books were both $2.5 million, only $50,000 short of N.A.L. That seems a relatively small gap, but it is a chasm to the bidder already hundreds of thousands of dollars over his limit. In such cases, terms of the sale tip the balance...
...close is the election race that, in a departure from tradition, the personalities of the competing leaders will make a significant difference. With his avuncular "Sunny Jim" image, Callaghan still ranks six points ahead of Thatcher in the popularity polls, although lately she has impressively narrowed the gap...
...nakedly displayed. As Cairo's semiofficial daily al-Ahram put it last week: "The Middle East question has reached a peak of political and diplomatic confrontation that is no less ferocious than the October War." Nonetheless, Washington remained hopeful that Secretary of State Cyrus Vance might breech the gap a bit on his trip to the Middle East this week. Both sides, in fact, are expected to participate in another foreign ministers conference like the one the U.S. arranged in Britain last month...
...cost of $1.2 billion, United will take 30 767s, twin-engine, wide-bodied jets that so far exist only as models in a wind tunnel. The new plane, designed to fill the gap between the long-range jumbos and short-range feeder planes, will be in the air by mid-1982, carrying 197 passengers on trips of 500 to 2,200 miles. It will look like a much fatter 707 with two huge engines hanging from thinner, longer wings. Because of its advanced aerodynamics and improved engines, it will be quieter, more comfortable and some 35% cheaper to operate than...