Word: gaps
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...both teams remained neck and neck, keeping within two points of each other for most of the set. With the game tied at 22, Harvard finally shot ahead, capitalizing on Stevens’s errors to secure the lead, 27-22. The Ducks managed to narrow the scoring gap to 28-26, but Weissbourd slammed down a kill to take the Crimson to game point, 29-26. “[Brady]’s our anchor,” Weintraub said. “He uses his height and his skill to his advantage. He’s pretty...
...knew about the first, failed mission. But he couldn't see the cloud, which lingered in a gap between airport weather stations. Kirby decided it was safe to launch. He flew his bright yellow Bell 407 helicopter to the hospital, picked up the patient, and took off for Houston at 2:46 a.m. Two minutes later, Kirby was flying 600 ft. above dense forest at 122 m.p.h., near the spot where the first pilot aborted. Kirby lost radio contact with the hospital in Houston. His helicopter dropped suddenly, to 100 ft. Its rotor sliced into thick pine trees. The cabin...
...born solipsists; we begin life thinking that our perceptions define reality. Gradually we learn perspective: that there's a difference between how we see ourselves and how others perceive us. Since the invention of recording media, nearly every child has gone through a ritual unsettling demonstration of the gap between ideal self and actual self: hearing what your voice sounds like on tape. Play a kid's voice back to him for the first time and his reaction will probably be, "That's not me. I know what I sound like...
...that we use these tunnels to only bring in weapons. We're bringing in the ordinary stuff that keeps Gaza alive. If the Israelis opened the border crossings, we wouldn't have to be doing this," says Mohammed, a gap-toothed man in his 40s whose cap is emblazoned with a Koranic verse that he hopes will protect him from being buried alive when the Israeli fighter-bombers reappear in the skies over Gaza...
...turbulent economy, looking at how a company may do over the course of this year requires more imagination than it does math skills. Earnings actually tell very little. They are a picture of the past. Most come out several weeks after a quarter ends. In a recession, that gap in time may make looking backwards a process which is nearly useless. Looking forward. nearly every public company in America is basing its guidance on conjecture more than predictable sales. That is why a growing number of companies are withdrawing forecasts all together...