Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tastes strongly like the washings of a foul gun." Located in inaccessible mountains near the sources of the James River, the springs could once be reached only by an Indian trail, but the authorities recently raised ?900 by a lottery and cleared a coach road to nearby Jennings Gap...
Shakespeare divided his text into almost equal halves by introducing Time (Powers Boothe), who serves among other things to bridge the (much criticized) gap of 16 years. In the first half we witness the wintry tragedy of King Leontes in Sicilia, prefaced by the prose duologue of lesser figures. The second half, similarly introduced by a prose duologue, brings us pastoral comedy in Bohemia. But the playwright goes on to take us back to Leontes and Sicilia at the end, where all the seemingly disparate elements are miraculously tied together with a triple knot. Kahn underlines this by having Time...
With the delegates yet to be chosen in twelve states, Reagan appears certain to close the gap and prevent Ford from reaching the 1,130 total required for nomination. In the view of Reagan strategists, he may very well sweep the 127 delegates to be chosen at state conventions in Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Utah and Washington?all in the Western heartland of Reagan country. After splitting North Dakota's 18 votes with Ford and picking up eight in Minnesota to ten for Ford (an estimate that observers believe exaggerates Reagan's strength), Reagan will try to pick...
Before independence last November, most of the 400,000 or so Portuguese and Angolan whites fled the country. The administrative and technical gap has only partly been filled by a few trained Angolan blacks, the few whites who stayed behind and an influx of Communist helpers (mostly Cubans, Yugoslavs and East Germans). They have helped Luanda to limp along, but nonetheless most restaurants have closed for lack of food and fuel, mountains of uncollected garbage pile up, and street crime is on the increase-more because of desperation than avarice. Almost every day, the government paper Diario de Luanda rages...
...also said that the real problem is the gap between what he thinks is a good plan and human failing. "The issue the public should concentrate on is the issue of policing and supervision--to make sure not just that we have an excellently designed facility but that it is operated up to an extremely high level of performance," he said...