Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...problem remains the debilitating dispute between radicals and moderates in the Peking leadership. In part, the conflict is genuinely ideological and involves such issues as educational policy, technology and the need for political indoctrination. But increasingly it has become a naked struggle for power. China has a severe generation gap. Most of the leading moderates, such as Li Hsien-nien and Defense Minister Yeh Chien-ying, are venerable party bureaucrats. The radicals, by and large, are young cadres who made personal power gains during the Cultural Revolution-gains that are now threatened by the rehabilitation of Chou...
Zajonc warns that birth order in itself must not be overemphasized, since a large age gap between children within a family will offset the advantage the first-born normally has. Further, he does not discount genetic and other influences on intelligence, or claim that his theory predicts any given person's intelligence. He deals with averages, not individuals. Still, he says, "all our hypothetical data seem to fit." He also notes that higher scores on Iowa and New York performance tests by children who will turn 18 in the early '80s suggest that his hypothesis is correct...
...first solo album, "Once I Love." She has been heard previously as a featured performer with the chuck Mangione Quartet. Here as producer Mangione lets Satterfield's voice stand out almost alone, reigning over spare arrangements that feature musicians from his own group as well as his brother, pianist Gap Mangione...
Morrissey's unsubstantiated explanations indicate that Rosenthal failed to receive tenure not because of any reservations about his teaching ability but because of his unpopular political views; however, in cases such as these the gap between what is known and what can be proved is usually quite wide. Despite the strong moral and financial support Rosenthal has received from students and faculty at Boston State, and from teacher's unions and professional associations across the state, the outcome of his fight for academic freedom, a fight he now plans to carry into Federal District Court, remains uncertain. What is certain...
...knew it was going to happen," he recalls. "We were upset but it was explained very rationally to us. At that point, there was such a gap between East and West, we wouldn't have had much of a chance anyway...