Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stanhouse, who pitched erratically but effectively for the Orioles this season, came on the scene and allowed the Angels to close the gap to one run, but came through in the clutch as he has all season...
...said that the first wave of runners, Newnham, Beckford and Foreman, can race with anyone in the country, so the gap between them and the second level is naturally big. He added that the second wave has improved greatly and is closing the gap...
...same time, the rise creates a new gap between rich and poor countries...
Chou could display an extraordinary personal graciousness. When junior members of our party took ill, he would visit them. Despite the gap in our protocol rank, he insisted that our meetings alternate between my residence and the Great Hall of the People. The Chinese seemed to regard him with special reverence, to see in him of all their leaders a special human quality. On a visit in late 1975 I asked a young interpreter about Chou's health; tears brimmed in her eyes as she told me he was gravely ill. It was no accident that...
Timilty will try to close the gap by confronting the mayor. He has already issued a debate challenge to the mayor, and he announced to campaign workers last week that he had "taken his gloves off" for the final campaign. But Timilty is addressing issues most Bostonians care little about--the use of city workers in the incumbent's campaign, for example, a virtually unassailable Boston tradition...