Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...believe the labor movement, for all its shortcomings, can best provide the broad base DA needs to operate. An official of the National Organization of Women assured a union audience, "We know it is important for women and labor to be national allies. The way to close the wage gap is to unionize women workers." But some strains between leftists and unionists were evident. At the energy workshop, activists complained about labor support of nuclear power. Building nukes means construction jobs, at least in the short run. On such issues delicate compromises are necessary to keep the coalition together...
...think a permanent review committee really would fill that gap," she added...
Saltzman narrowed the gap to a quarter of a body length over the first six laps, but Coglin refused to be beaten. Harvard's winning time of 6:41.84 was a mere .03 seconds better than the Tigers, but the stunnning victory sank Princeton's title aspirations and sent the capacity Blodgett crowd into hysteria...
...meeting ended, the Vatican issued a public financial communique, its first ever, revealing a 1979 budget deficit of around $20 million. The gap has been met by "Peter's pence," the aid offering from churches around the world, and other gifts. But the 1980 deficit will be worse and, the statement added, "within a few years the Holy See will find itself hard-pressed." Said one Cardinal, "The Vatican is certainly not Fort Knox." The meeting urged austerity at all levels. The balance sheet apparently did not cover the international mission office or the Vatican bank, and may exclude...
Romantic Comedy is one long credibility gap. As comedy it is flush with flip badinage but unilluminated by genuine humor. As romance it is a verbal sparring match with mighty few emo tional clinches. There is no discernible chemical affinity between these two antiseptic people...