Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Reagan's startling victories in Texas and Indiana seemed in part to show that he was on to a hot campaign issue: whether the U.S. has indeed become No. 2 behind the Soviets in military strength. It is also a familiar topic in U.S. political history; the "missile gap" argument was a major part of the 1960 campaign...
Help--the way it has since World War II? The vast American loans, which the author of Berlinguer and the Professor, along with most Americans, envision as the mainstay of the Italian economy, have indeed contributed to an economic boom; one which has served only to widen the gap between rich and poor in Italy. The greatest amount of American "aid" has probably been CIA payoffs, Lockheed graft, or similar bribes to the ruling political structure, the Christian Democrats. This money promptly crossed the frontier into Swiss banks. Italy is still poor, though the politicians who populate the pages...
...regain the initiative, Political Science Professor Ted Greenwood believes the U.S. must commit itself as a country to solving its most pressing technological problems. In the past, he notes, Government and science worked together to close the missile gap and place a man on the moon. Now, he believes, the two should adopt a similar attitude toward ending the energy crisis, which he and others consider the most urgent problem facing the nation. It is too early to tell if Greenwood's advice on energy will be heeded, but there is at least one indication that the country intends...
...black. They are men of caste status in an army hutment, an odd lot indeed. Richie (Peter Evans) is an avowed homosexual. The college-bred Billy (Paul Rudd) may be a latent homosexual, but won't admit it. And Roger is a black who has bridged the racial gap through competence and an equable temper...
...cent of the new edition is new, either in one of several additional chapters or included in one of the old ones. A major share of the additional material is taken up by an expanded section on checking for breast cancer and other material whose exclusion left an obvious gap in the first edition. Other additions are made in response to letters the Boston Women's Health Collective received after their first edition was published, so that the new version speaks directly to more specific medical needs than did the original...