Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Daniel Ellsberg '52. As a freshman he campaigned for a Progressive Party candidate for Senate. But revelations about Stalinism influenced Ellsberg and other members of the Class. "Radicals were put on the defensive in those days. Leftists had to be apologetic about Stalin," so they suffered from a credibility gap he says...
...years, the gap between rhetoric and reality in international amateur athletics has bred hypocrisy and, periodically, scandal. While demanding lip service to an impracticable ideal, the amateur system has left American athletes to fend for themselves in a degrading world of under-the-table payoffs and over-the-table handouts. To support themselves during the rigors of year-round training, many Olympians have accepted deals from manufacturers and fees for appearing in track and field meets, hiding their earnings from Olympic, Amateur Athletic Union and international sports federation officials. In the process, many have concealed their incomes from the Internal...
...save on expenses for bus fuel and guides. Guests checking into Colonial Williamsburg hotels are now greeted by discreetly worded appeals for donations; the foundation hopes to receive about 1,000 gifts this year-double the 1976 total. But even if these methods succeed in closing the 1977 budget gap, a longer-range worry threatens: the possibility that an energy crunch and rising fuel costs will both push foundation expenses still higher and persuade still more potential visitors to stay home...
Consider, say, the big gap between the pay of Jimmy Carter, the Chief Executive of the U.S. ($200,000 plus housing), and Thomas Aquinas Murphy, the chief executive of General Motors ($950,000 including bonus and stock options). Does it mean that society feels that what is good enough for the nation is not nearly good enough for GM? Hardly. The disparity can be tracked not to some hidden spectrum of social values but to two distinct systems of compensation. In business, pay levels are established by clear criteria toward the equally clear purpose of increasing production and profit...
Probably the sex gap is unclosable in the marathon, but in the ultramarathon distances of 50 to 100 miles, women's lightness and endurance may be a commanding advantage, and a woman has been an overall winner in a West Coast 100-mile ultramarathon...