Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...house owned by one of Nixon's friends, 12 miles up the beach from San Clemente, both in dark suits, jets droning over every few minutes. Frost led with the real question--were you ever part of a conspiracy to obstruct justice? What was on the 18-minute gap on the June 20, 1972 tape conversation with H.R. Haldeman? Nixon answered the gap contained only his and Haldeman's discussion of the political ramifications of Watergate; that their main concern was "whether or not the other side was bugging us." And his motive for keeping the thing secret? No cover...
...school has deprived a large number of students of expected services and increased the vast gap between the quality of certain Houses with the justification that campus life is separate but always equal. The rationale has traditionally been that all facilities are open to all students who can benefit tremendously so long as they make an effort. Each House is assumed to be possessed of some peculiar attractive quality so that no matter where you live you still come out a winner. The trouble is that Mather House has lost out again, this time in the scramble for hot breakfasts...
...counterbalance the strong pessimism is Taylor's complex psychological insight. In "Daphne's Lover," as in "The Captain's Son," an adolescent observer unravels the difference between his own respectable, and the hero's unrespectable, family. In both stories only the perspective of the younger generation bridges the social gap. The teenaged narrator realizes the imprisoning morality of his home, but because he is both too timid and too wise to rebel against its overprotectiveness, he must watch the vain revolt of the hero...
...until now the company's adept executive vice president in charge of Ford's operations outside the U.S. (with $8 billion in annual sales, the largest of any U.S. auto company). The arrangement appeared to be a setup that would allow some other executive to bridge the gap until a younger Ford can run the company. Best guess for the wielder of transitional power: the little-known Caldwell...
...story is Associate Editor Frederic Golden, who has long followed with "fascination" the developments in molecular biology. He acknowledges that "there is a certain natural awe, fear and hostility that some people have toward scientists. And many scientists remain aloof. We hope this story will help to bridge the gap between the world inside the laboratory and the world outside...