• "The challenge is that they reflect a crisis of concern for millions of people about the biggest issue of our time: The gap between their values and the way our country is run, " he wrote.

    BBC: Vince Cable expresses sympathy for St Paul's protesters

  • 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.

    ECONOMIST: Titled English writers

  • The bottom line here is that our standard of living is sinking like a stone and the income gap from top to bottom is at a all time high and the percentage of rate vs. actual dollars in revenues paid is far in favor of the higher income brackets than the average wage earner.

    FORBES: Top Reagan Advisor Calls Out The GOP For Lying About Taxes

  • By the way, enthusiasm gap - you mean until this time more of the people who supported Obama were more enthusiastic about doing so.

    NPR: After Conventions, McCain Takes Lead In Some Polls

  • Moreover, the rats that successfully completed the more difficult task, which involved a longer gap in time between the sound and the puff of air, had retained more new neurons than those assigned easier tasks, with shorter gaps.

    ECONOMIST: Neuroscience (2)

  • In an occurrence that is becoming all the more common, Gap saw its performance numbers posted online ahead of time, prompting the a stock halt as shares in the company jumped.

    FORBES: Gap's Solid 11% Gain In February Sales Released Prematurely, Sparks Trading Halt

  • Our aim is to clearly cover the gap which is created at the time of war.

    BBC: Viewpoint: 'Our concerns are the civilians'

  • Although public support for the death penalty remains strong, the moratorium's supporters hope that a federal law limiting the amount of time that can be spent on appeals the average gap between conviction and execution is now 12 years will shock people who tend to forget about a case after the trial.

    ECONOMIST: Execution reconsidered

  • The world champion is having a tough time staying ahead of Spain's Carlos Sainz with the gap between the two of just 0.2 of a second.

    BBC: News | Sport | McRae tumbles out in Sweden

  • What's more, the body mass index (BMI) of overweight people tended to rise as the gap between their weekday and weekend "time zones" widened.

    CNN: Is 'social jet lag' harming your health?

  • The final count in a few weeks' time may close the gap between the four nations and the National Union of Students is spot on in pointing out that while an 11.7% fall sounds gargantuan, the drop in applications actually amounts to 1, 500 pupils deciding against going into higher education.

    BBC: Interim data, colourful metaphors

  • New Zealand wing Gear touched down after good work from the Worcester pack and Arr found a gap off the base of a scrum to dive over in first-half stoppage-time.

    BBC: Gloucester 13-13 Worcester

  • Prince William raised the profile of travelling during a gap year when he spent time in Chile and Africa before taking up his studies at St Andrews University.

    BBC: Graduates opt for gap year

  • Total retail sales growth is now 2.5% below the whole of the UK and the SRC said there was no sign that the gap would be closing any time soon.

    BBC: Olympics 'distracted' Scottish shoppers says retail body

  • Both teams were playing with real ambition and when Cipriani landed a penalty either side of half-time to cut the gap to six points it looked as though a cliff-hanger was in the works.

    BBC: Wasps 19-35 Bath

  • Other options for filling the energy gap would include making greater use of the large number of small generators that the National Grid can call on in time of shortage, and extending the use of contracts that allow the grid to interrupt supply to industrial customers at peak periods.

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  • Cipriani cut the gap to six with two penalties, either side of half-time.

    BBC: Wasps 19-35 Bath

  • What would be needed were Americans in successive generations who were willing to do their part through protests and struggles, on the streets and in the courts, through a civil war and civil disobedience, and always at great risk to narrow that gap between the promise of our ideals and the reality of their time.

    NPR: Obama And The Politics Of Being Biracial

  • Most of the time, we sigh and accept the perceptual gap between the brand promise and our experience.

    FORBES: Measuring the Distance Between a Brand Promise and a Brand Experience

  • So next the next time you find yourself in The Gap buying a pair of jeans, you might look for the ones with the (RED) label.

    FORBES: Raising Funds The (RED) Way

  • The fiscal and economic challenges are conspicuous: a substantial and intractable gap between public spending and tax revenues in the US at a time of anaemic economic growth.

    BBC: As the US loses AAA, where is a safe harbour?

  • Ulster new boy Schifcofske went on to reduce the half-time gap to just a point when he converted two out of four penalties as indiscipline crept into the Scarlets play.

    BBC: Ulster 9-16 Scarlets

  • However, understanding the nature and extent of that gap can and has been refined and increased over time, and this should remain a high priority for both reformers and champions of the current free market system.

    FORBES: Every Accountant Tells a Story

  • Any time you try to close the gap on the last two percent of any business measurement, you begin to distort the business itself.

    FORBES: Perfect Numbers

  • Best-of-breed retail names on the order of Gap, Best Buy, Home Depot and Costco have been marked down big time.

    FORBES: Buy the Lepers

  • And last season's Man of Steel Pat Richards then claimed his first try of the season shortly after half-time, as Wigan closed the gap.

    BBC: Wigan Warriors 28-24 St Helens

  • Every trader in America will try and short this gap open and sell the banks, which has been the right trade most of the time over the last few weeks, but things do not always act the same.

    FORBES: Stocks Get A Lift Early With Help From Europe

  • During that time a gap of around half a percentage point opened up between the two.

    ECONOMIST: A-level results

  • As I pointed out a while ago, one consequence of uprating benefits with inflation at a time of flat or falling real wages has been to help narrow the gap between rich and poor.

    BBC: Fairness and the welfare bill

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