Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worst in modern history. But it sounded as if it would make a story. So, at the end of February 1943, I flew to North China with my friend Harrison Forman of the London Times, and won permission to travel the Lunghai railway from Paochi through Sian to the gap through which the Yellow River flowed and the railway ran. The Japanese, on the far side of the river, habitually shelled this gap by day. The station at the break, where we spent the evening, stank of urine, stank of shit, stank of bodies. All around us were acres...
...very wrong with this show--and unfortunately, the play seems to be the problem. All the good acting and careful technical work in the world cannot, after all, overshadow what is basically a mediocre play. Gilroy's work perhaps evokes some of the feeling of the times--the generation gap existed then, too, and the resentment and alienation of a failed marriage certainly didn't spring up in the last decade. This basic theme has been seen so many times before...a male child goes off to war, or what have you, and comes back...
...export promotion measures that should be on the President's desk next week. It's about time. Last year the U.S. had a $27 billion trade deficit, swelled by a bill of almost $45 billion for oil imports. In this year's first four months the gap was $12.5 billion, vs. $7.6 billion for the same period last year. These imbalances have shrunk the value of the dollar overseas, fed inflation at home, cost jobs and raised demands for self-defeating protectionist legislation...
Monthly meetings between the University and the president of the MTC, beginning this month, are also guaranteed by the agreement. "The meetings are being held to make sure we'll work together to keep the communication gap from opening," Joyce said. Costello said the meetings are "an absolutely good idea. No harm can be forthcoming from dialogue...
James P. Costello, general agent for Local 40, said calling the problem a communication gap is "simplistic." He believes that reclassification is a matter of integrity for the workers. He explained at the time of the strike that maintenance workers such as Harvards B&G employees undergo years of careful training and apprenticeship to learn their particular craft, and resent having to perform jobs they feel they are unsuited for. "The main issue was reclassification, an issue that had to come to a head--and we weren't getting anywhere," Costello said...