Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...paraquat-sprayed grass. Some experts speculated that there might be less harm in smoking paraquat than in swallowing the chemical in liquid form. "There's no doubt that paraquat causes pulmonary fibrosis when taken orally," observes a California lung physiologist, Dr. Jeff Golden, "but there's a gap as far as knowing what to expect with inhalation." Exploring the medical literature, Golden noted a report that Malaysian farm workers who accidentally inhaled paraquat while spraying with it recently suffered only temporary throat bleeding. Another reason for skepticism was voiced by University of California Toxicologist Dr. Jim Embree...
...considered a "problem" play--it's boxed with the comedies, but the dark undertones are much in evidence--yet it's the premiere choice for Harvard's newest theatrical organization, the Harvard Shakespeare Theater. The Theater was formed to fill what "Measure's" executive producer, John Cooper, calls "a gap in Harvard theater," a place for solid, interpretive performances of Shakespeare and other classics. When Cooper says "interpretive," he clearly means it--after all, Shakespeare's Viennese setting of the play has been switched to the nineteenth century, because Cooper feels it's a closer-to-home example...
...other scholars. This will signal another major step into the era of the recorded recollections of the people who make history. The perils of tape recording seem to plague almost everyone, but the rewards are worth it. Jackie and Professor Frantz, it turns out, produced a 35-minute gap when the machine failed. According to Professor Frantz, Jackie was undaunted and got down on her knees to fix it, then reanswered the questions...
...freeze suggestion when, in a week or so, he begins meeting on a fairly regular basis with business leaders at the White House. One result of any restraints on the top executives' income is that raises for lower-level managers would be pinched to preserve the traditional pay gap between echelons. Further, there is some question about the effectiveness of a freeze. A worker making $10,000 or $15,000 will not be overcome with a need for sacrifice upon hearing that an executive earning $400,000 is forgoing a raise...
...Mellon grant fills the financial gap between limited government financial support and waning grants from the Ford Foundation, which concluded its funding of the Center with a matching grant of $500,000, Bergson said...