In recent years, the gap year option seems to be gaining greater acceptance in the academic community.
Structured like job and college fairs, the fairs are intended to bring awareness to the gap year concept and to offer interested students and parents the opportunity to learn about a variety of programs, meet staff members of organizations that run programs, and exchange information with other families.
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The Gender Gap During the recession last year, there was a lot of talk about how, if more women held top jobs in business and board seats, there would be less of the reckless practices that led to the financial crisis and better decision making.
The 25-year age gap got the gossip columnists talking, but despite the scepticism the couple married in New York in 2000.
Israel demands three years from its men and two from its women, after which some would-be undergrads take what the English call a "gap year" to travel the globe before heading off to college.
Taxes and benefits narrow the gap: last year the shares of income after taxes and benefits were 43% and 6.9% respectively.
But the Lords Constitution Committee has warned the proposals could make politicians less accountable to voters, because the five year gap between elections would be too long.
The benefits of gap year programs have long been celebrated anecdotally, but there is new evidence in support of these educational experiences, confirming what students and their parents have always known.
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The spread, or the gap, of the two-year Spanish government bond over a similar German benchmark widened to 165 basis points from 129 basis points a week ago and 53 basis points at the start of the year.
Swansea also offered another debut - last year's cancellation meant this was the first full Welsh conference Andrew RT Davies had spoken to since assuming leadership of the Tory group in the National Assembly for Wales. (He did speak to a rally in St Asaph that filled the gap before last year's local elections).
In September 2005 the year-over-year gap was 3.7 percentage points and then a whopping 4.4 percentage points in July 2008.
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On the sensitive issue of income distribution, the researchers say the rate of wealth growth for the rural population will outstrip that of the cities this year, but the gap between rich and poor is still widening.
But John Dunford, general secretary of the Secondary Heads Association warned that there were "no instant solutions" to resolving the gender gap in this year's GCSE results, which he said could not be explained away by the "laddish culture".
Why the 50 year timeframe to close the gap to where we are today?
But a recent price run-up from DKK450 to DKK620 over the last year has mosty closed the gap.
The Agribusiness ETF (NYSE:MOO) already filled its gap that started the year.
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Earlier this month, the IRS released information on the tax gap for 2006, the most recent year for which data is available.
My guess is that the performance of the cars will be even closer this year, especially the gap between the front-running teams and the midfield.
The gap in ten-year yields, 111 basis points on September 25th, has fallen to below 90 points.
If we have a poll relatively soon, would unionists argue that the seven-year gap between referendums should be extended?
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And year after year the gap between the number of teachers we have and the number of teachers we need in these areas is widening.
She also spent stretches in Venice where, as an ageing celebrity, she was a must to visit for the young noblemen doing their grand tour gap-year travellers of the time and provoked either delight or disgust.
Speaking on BBC Radio Scotland, Dr Collins said the students had gone to live in Israel in their gap year and were aware of the risks.
The 30 year old right back will fill the gap left by Lee Vaughan's summer departure to Kidderminster.
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