Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israelis, flew to Amman to meet Hussein, and was then scheduled to proceed to Cairo to discuss with the Egyptians some suggestions for improving the text of the declaration of principles. In fact, Kamel, Vance and Israel's Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan had considerably narrowed the language gap before the Egyptian delegation was ordered home two weeks ago. Still to be resolved, however, was the phrasing of the item involving the nature of a West Bank-Gaza Palestinian entity. The Egyptians favor the words used by Carter at his meeting with Sadat in Aswan last month: recognition...
...Crimson's next scoring binge came when Fine dropped a layup and then laced a picture-perfect alley-oop pass to Booker to maintain the 11-point gap...
...program on grounds that it is racist, because a notable percentage of career criminals are black. Others claim that their clients are stigmatized by the career-criminal category, even though the trial jury never learns the defendant has been specially labeled. The career-criminal program has reduced the gap between arrest and trial to about 60 days in some cities, a marked improvement. Remarks Boston Prosecutor Lloyd Macdonald: "Defense attorneys are always trying to stall...
...style finally proves to be not only the movie's principal virtue but its undoing. The directors are too coldly rigorous in their efforts to remain aloof from the emotional content of their story: they place so large an intellectual distance between us and the characters that the gap becomes unbridgeable. That is why we admire Padre Padrone without being engaged by it, and care more about the filmmakers' achievements than we do about what happens to the hero. Like other such oddities as Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad or Antonioni's Zabriskie Point, Padre Padrone...
...start of the evening did not bode well as Harvard's bus broke down, thus delaying the tap-off by 40 minutes. The Crimson squad fell behind by eight, but three buckets by Caryn Curry closed the gap and Harvard stayed within two until four minutes remained in the first half. Then, the Crusaders pumped in 11 to take a 38-28 lead into the lockerroom...