"As our assessment determines that we have a gap between the demand on the ground and our ability to deliver, obviously we then adjust the priority on delivery of supplies coming into the theater.
VOA: standard.2010.01.19
The enthusiasm gap reveals just how true this assessment to be.
As the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has pointed out in its latest assessment, the performance gap between America and the rest of the industrial world is widening.
Private school students do better on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, but the gap between average scores is about the same at ages 13 and 17 as at 9.