We suspect that 1997's gap between sales growth and earnings growth is trying to tell us something.
Mr Bloomberg has filled New York's gap with Cathie Black, the head of Hearst Magazines, a publishing company.
At Dean's Gap, near Sussex Inlet, more than 100 firefighters are trying to stop the blaze reaching the disused army range.
Shoppers at Gap 's Gap, Old Navy and Banana Republic stores get free shipping and coupons as they accumulate purchase points on their store cards.
Wines at Delaplane Cellars include crisp whites like Chardonnay and Viognier and complex red wines that include Melange Rouge, William's Gap Reserve, and Cabernet Franc.
Not today's Gap a lumbering giant in decline but Gap in its heyday, the late '80s and '90s, when its pocket tees and pleated khakis costumed the planet.
Layton and I used to climb Bald Man's Gap, the exact apex of the divide he taking care not to spill the glass of water clutched in between his hands, while I minded a rudimentary pinhole camera that I had fashioned from a shoe box.
They then calculated the correlations between Germany's output gap and the rest (see chart).
But the consultants reckon that much of Brazil's productivity gap is fairly easy to bridge.
One building, which used to be army barracks, now plays a key role in filling Rwanda's skills gap.
Despite what many Americans would like to believe, America's trade gap is not simply an expression of its faster growth rate.
But now most economists reckon it will be no bigger than 2%, meaning that the euro area's output gap will widen.
And then there's the wage gap between Delphi's US and foreign workers.
Across the Atlantic, the U.S. Congressional Budget Office, the main referee of U.S. budget policy, in January estimated the U.S. gap at 5.3% of GDP.
In an ideal world, America's politicians would come up with a package of medium-term spending cuts and tax reforms to fill the country's fiscal gap.
Whether it's the gap between the top tenth and the bottom tenth, or between the middle and the bottom - they all got smaller in 2010-11.
Mary Walshok, a dean at the University of California, San Diego, and author of Closing America's Job Gap, points out one more danger in specific career goal-setting.
India's budget gap stands at 5.2% of gross domestic product this fiscal year ending on March 31, slightly lower than the 5.3% projected earlier by the finance ministry.
Then America's output gap was small and unemployment was falling.
The malign effects exist because there's a gap between the demand for and the supply of unskilled labor and that gap cannot be filled legally under existing immigration laws.
Programs such as the one at Exposition Park might turn out thousands-more Kalifs, reducing drownings in summers to come... and narrowing swimming's racial gap, one child at a time.
And I think there's probably going to be a point in time where there's a gap, where some publishers have figures it out and they're going to be making hay.
Starbucks' saturation approach to expansion is no different than, say, McDonald's or Gap (nyse: GPS - news - people ), but it seems to get a bad rap for it.
McKinsey, like the government, thinks that there is something in this, and in other common explanations of Britain's productivity gap, such as failure to exploit economies of scale and a poorly skilled workforce.
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And I think, unfortunately, Katrina revealed that there's a gap between the ideal we have as a country and the reality that people are living every day in places like the Ninth Ward of New Orleans.
But Mr Pickering's view is that the onus for saving has switched too far from individuals towards employers, with the result that firms are becoming increasingly unwilling to provide schemes and play their part in filling Britain's savings gap.
But the other part of it is, is that there's still going to be a gap if we don't do anything -- even if we repay all the money into the trust fund, there's still a gap because there are too many retirees.
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