Over a longer time period, the gap would only continue to grow.

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Beginning next year, seniors will get 50% off on prescription drugs during the gap with the full 100% of the cost of prescription drugs credited towards getting them through the gap period to where they once again regain full coverage.

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Tobacco-related deaths jumped by less than 9% in the same period, closing the gap.

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Over the same period an 18-percentage point gap opened up between pass rates in A-levels and the International Baccalaureate.

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This decrease in the earnings gap occurred over the same period when the proportion of the UK 22-64 population with degree qualification doubled, rising from 12% to 25%.

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After being badly outshot early, the Penguins closed the gap to 13-8 in the period.

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By 2003, the differences were less than the average for the period, thanks to a closing of the regulatory gap, but they persisted nonetheless.

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By contrast, the Gap is getting its mojo back after a dark period.

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These called for an immediate ceasefire, followed by a cooling-off period and a series of confidence-building measures to bridge the gap between the current violence and a resumption of long-term negotiations.

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But while the progressive income tax has continued to reduce inequality, it has not kept the gap in after tax income from fairly steadily widening over the 1987 to 2009 period, the researchers found.

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For instance, when you worked at the Gap, you increased sales in the U.K. by 35% over a period of two years, from 2002 to 2004.

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Over the same period, employment, manufacturing, and the stock market all also increased the fastest alongside a widening trade gap.

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If they waited until 2020 to close the fiscal gap through 2037, they would have to cut noninterest outlays or raise revenues over the remaining period by 6.8 percent of GDP.

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