Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...apparent that there is a growing gap between what Ford talks about and what comes out on the bottom line of the ledger. His own White House staff, for instance, is still bloated with 550 people, 10% or 20% above some estimates of what is needed...
...national party roughly in line with the P.L.P. Since the end of the Attlee government in 1951, though, the two largest British unions have shifted radically leftwards and increased the split between M.P.'s and trade unionists to alarming proportions. Wilson has so far, single-handedly bridged this gap. As Crossman pointed out, in Bagehot's terms Wilson has acted as the "bridge or buckle or hyphen" between Labour's two power bases...
...contradicted by much of the evidence. Assuming along with the majority of the American public that the lone assassin theory is nonsense, Canfield and Weberman set out to provide an alternative theory which accounts for all the evidence and provides a motive for the assassination, the most conspicuous gap in the Warren Report...
...being eroded by rapid inflation, and while black wages have risen, those of white workers have risen even higher. If the color bar is floated, the wages of white workers will rise even more quickly, for the large white trade unions will not accept a decrease in the wage gap. The attitudes of most whites toward the improvement of the Africans' condition have not changed substantially over the years. One study showed last year that while the Afrikaner youth-Afrikaners are the largest voting bloc in the white population--are "slightly more pragmatic" in their attitudes toward African development, they...
...should mimic that of Michel angelo's Leda). The problem was now to set those planes in motion; for that, Kupka resorted to one of the great novelties of the time, the high-speed sequential chronographs of pioneer Photographer Etienne-Jules Marcy-multiple exposures that bridged the gap between still photography and the movie cam era. His pastel studies of his wife picking flowers, done in this mode around 1909-10, are of extraordinary interest, preceding Duchamp's famous Nude Descending a Staircase by two years. Like wise, the paintings Kupka made later-a series of abstract color...