Yet a yawning gap remained between the rates they had promised and those they could earn.
Sounds good in theory, but there is often a yawning gap between the rhetoric of government officials and the reality on the ground.
And yet, of course, South Africa is also developing into one of the most unequal societies on earth, with a yawning gap between rich and poor.
Gale converted all three tries but Sinfield brought his side back into the game just before the break when he went through a yawning gap in the visitors' defence for a solo try.
And with a yawning gap between those people who use laptops and those who use handheld digital devices (the former tend to be older, the latter skew younger) Google is definitively poised for the future.
David Maister, a leading adviser to professional-service firms and a former academic at Harvard Business School, says that there is a yawning gap between what the big firms are offering and what their corporate clients want.
Fine, but Mr Geithner still has a yawning gap to bridge between banks, which do not want to sell at depressed prices because of losses they would have to recognise, and potential buyers, who need to be sure of healthy returns.
So why is there such a yawning valuation gap with two companies of seemingly such similar profiles?
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And there is a yawning generation gap: 55% of 18-29-year-olds support gay marriage, but only 21% of those over 65.
Predictably, there is the same downside as in Vietnam - a yawning income gap between the cities and the countryside.
Argentina still suffers from a yawning credibility gap with investors, due to its shortsighted economic policies in general, and its meddling with the inflation figures in particular.
Policymakers face a daunting task in closing the yawning gap between revenues and expenditures in the coming years, but targeting medical innovation is a particularly counterproductive approach.
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Iceland's income gap is a yawning 38% that is, the average women earns only 62 cents to a man's dollar.
With its dark and drained colors and its yawning gap where a sense of humor is supposed to be, the movie works hard to suggest that there is both art and mystery to the calling of the hit man, but not everyone will be convinced.
Although Singh is the architect of India's recent economic reforms and is known to be incorruptible, he is not a career politician and can do little to bridge the yawning gap between the Congress and the masses.
But the yawning gap between the Cushing price at prices at the Gulf is sending a signal that more transportation capacity is needed, and the market is responding with alacrity.
If Obama declared that the use of chemical weapons would be a game-changer and nothing happens, America's credibility is lost in the yawning gap between the president's words and deeds.
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