But Navy acquisition officials have rejected preliminary plans to use commercial alternatives to plug that gap.
McKinsey's Jayant Sinha believes the education system can be fixed in time to plug the gap.
Is the prime aim to make the regions rich or to plug a gap in democracy?
Mr Abe insists that revived growth and lower government spending will plug the gap.
FleetBoston helps it to plug a gap in its network, not to close duplicate branches.
Sir Timothy said a graduate tax could not be ruled out in Scotland to plug the gap.
As governments have salami-sliced future pension benefits, they have encouraged people to plug the gap through individual accounts.
And it has considerable stocks of cars to plug any gap in production one potential upside of that overcapacity.
Farmers will be allowed to produce as much milk as they like, in an attempt to plug the gap.
Men are looking abroad to plug the gap in their local marriage market.
At the Friendship Hospital, the new fee is meant to plug this gap.
But the Conservatives attacked the opposition's alternative proposals as a gesture that would not "plug the gap" of savings needed.
Darren Williams came on to plug the gap, but Butler still had to stop another Juninho run as half time beckoned.
So if the ECB won't budge and eurozone countries are unwilling to cough up, how else will Greece plug the gap?
New wells will fail to plug the gap left as older fields dry up, despite the investment that 2008's higher prices encouraged.
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He has all but ruled out raising the retirement age or cutting pensions to plug the gap in America's public pension system.
America's already hard-pressed soldiers in Afghanistan may have to plug the gap.
She is unimpressed by Mr Blair's insistence that it was only fair for graduates, not taxpayers, to plug the gap in university finances.
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This information is usually delivered by the development (read fund-raising) office, along with a heartfelt plea to help plug that gap with a donation.
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Dr Claus and her colleagues have tried to plug the gap.
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Speculators plug the gap when the hedging requirements of raw-material producers and buyers do not coincide, offering a counterparty for trades that might otherwise have no takers.
Finding an American satellite operator to plug the gap in Sky Global Networks may well seem to him to be the crowning jewel in a glittering business career.
More money is being sent in to recapitalise the banks, Cypriot loans are being rescheduled, the government will sell off assets to help plug the gap and so on.
John Lewis said its new York store would "plug the gap" for shoppers in the city who would no longer have to travel to its stores in Sheffield and Newcastle.
Although constantly looking for potential new signings, Mullen has also admitted that he is quite happy to plug the gap left by Ishmel Demontagnac with members of his current squad.
"We've seen, bit by bit, a reduction in monies coming into the sector and voluntary organisations have tried to plug the gap, but that isn't sustainable into the future, " she added.
By using an entirely different planet-hunting approach, it should be able to plug this gap, and provide a means of calibrating the census figures resulting from the radial-velocity and astrometric searches.
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