Gap Quotations | Page 3

I think for Chris to get within 0.6 of a second of pole is a great achievement, given what we have gone through this weekend so far. His position doesn't quite reflect what might have been as he had to deal with traffic on his fastest lap. Unfortunately, in race trim the gap between us and the faster runners - in terms of consistency - will be greater than it was in qualifying. This is down to a number of reasons that the team can't fix here at the track.

The 2009 stimulus law got the ball rolling, allowing the agency to reduce and eliminate fees and raise loan guarantees to 90 percent of the total. I knew that we had the opportunity to use S.B.A. products to fill that gap in a rapid manner, as we ended up doing in the Recovery Act.

The ability to close the achievement gap is the civil rights issue of our generation, ... This is the way to do it.

The achievement gap is not caused by a lack of intelligence. It begins with low expectations and teachers. We need to change the attitudes.

The achievement gap is closing and that is great news for every student, ... These Blue Ribbon Schools are an example of what teachers and students can achieve.

The A340 is on its last legs. Airbus has a huge gap between 300 seats and the A380. They will have to do something.

The 8.5 percentage-point gap in cost increases between a best-performing and a poor-performing company is very significant. Through focused initiatives such as building data warehouses and using hard-dollar ROI calculations, best-performing companies lower cost trends, minimize employee absence and earn higher rates of employee satisfaction with their programs.

The amount of people being laid off still doesn't match the massive gap in IT unemployment.

That was quite an experience right there, ... We went to New York the year after it happened. It was weird, because there was just like a big ol' gap in between all these buildings and you could tell where the damage had been done.

The $11.3 billion record tax receipts will narrow the state's budget gap and will help us to get our fiscal house in order.

I wasn't looking for either the stage win or the lead, more to open up a time gap on the other favorites.

I would not advise raising any expectations. Today's meeting demonstrated that there is a gap that exists between the two sides.

Metro 7 is an important step in the strategy to fill the gap in our customers' needs.

When Song was created, it had a lot lower costs and more productivity, ... That gap has closed between Song and Delta.

We need to play with the strongest teams now so that we can cover the gap between us and them as quickly as possible,

We just can't afford to lose these schools. . . . They need special attention, and they need it urgently. They are a major part of the national strategy to close the education gap and have long been engines to the black middle class -- producing doctors, teachers, lawyers.

You can chew on the air in some cities, and the rivers run in Technicolor. Poor people have little access to health care, and the gap between rich and poor is growing.

Where we grew up, you don't get that information at all. That there are agencies trying to bridge that gap is amazing.

We can tell that the gap between China and France is rather limited. However, we still need a way to go to catch up with Britain.

we can't close the gap ... unless we provide additional supplies.

We'll be the first to bridge the gap between the identity and security systems. E-Security has real-time monitoring and management.

We can open the gap a little bit now, getting the three points would leave us seven points ahead of Newcastle.

We hope they will be able to run like that in every meet. We want to close the gap between No. 1 and No. 8. We hope to get into the team pack mentality.

We hope the Legislature will look at this report and recognize that we need to address this widening income gap among our citizens.

We hope it will be the case that tax cuts will bridge the gap until hiring picks up, but that seems like a pretty precarious plan. But it's the only plan we've got.

We have surpassed expectations by considerably exceeding the estimated overall financing gap of around US$1.2 billion, of which $1 billion is in grants.

While claiming the gold medals at the Winter Olympics four years ago, our gap with South Korea, the world's leading country of the sport, was small, but now the gap between the two countries has grown bigger and bigger, especially in the aspect of techniques.

You almost expect surprises in this type of a race. The skiing was so fast because you had this ice coming out of the sky, making really hard tracks. There isn't a huge gap in the skiing. You couldn't make more than a minute or two on anybody today. So the (good) shooters had a huge advantage, much more than normal.

We're closing the gap between us and the super teams from up state.

We ended up saving about 15 percent of those gap fillers that were installed with the old process, while all others in our first priority region were replaced.

We'd worked together on a Gap commercial, so I guess he'd always seen me as a contemporary young guy, ... I was definitely on his mind.

We're always dealing with the administration, and the typical student really isn't, so we're trying to bridge the gap and explain to them in more, I guess, casual terms the reasons for some of the rules that are in place.

We are training every day to close the gap on that wrestler.

We must look at the stark reality that there is a continuing achievement gap between the rich and the poor, and between whites and minority students, ... This gap is a gaping hole in our commitment to fulfilling the American promise, and it will only get bigger if we do not close the digital divide as well.

We had a little larger gap between our No. 1 and No. 5 men today, but how can you argue with the places we got in a 56-man field? The grouping of our top four really put us over the top today as they were able to push each other to top 10 spots. That type of depth really makes a team strong.

We have a gap right now with a lot of umpires with great experience and then a lot of young umpires. It would be nice to start filling that void in the middle. And we really encourage women to participate.

We've met with the band a few times in Los Angeles. The original idea was to gather a dozen or so Sparks songs as sort of a stamp of approval of our band. And they want to do one or two songs where we write and perform them together. We hope it will happen as soon as there is a gap in both bands' schedules.

We've long held to the theory that the valuation gap between the U.S. and Europe would pay off for investors. But the very good times are over.

We're working to narrow the gap and we hope the company is serious. We're serious. We want to make a quick resolution and the quicker it's settled, the better.

We're working feverishly to try to close the gap and to make sure we balance at the end of the year. ... There's no other option.

With the Gap Band coming from Oklahoma, other artists would tease us by calling us cowboys. We didn't grow up on a ranch, but we took that style to the stage. We knew that it was corny, but at least it was ours.

We have an aggressive team offensively. They swing the bats. When they get things going they hit a lot of balls hard into the gap and stuff.

We could have given them more of a run for their money, but they're a very strong team and could well go on to win the cup, ... I honestly believe we are closing the gap on the top teams in Europe at club and international levels, but on this occasion the Frankfurt players' greater experience of big matches in big competitions probably gave them the edge.

We can't afford to ignore any group. The achievement gap plays a big role in being able to address the skills shortage.

We have the pros, the right people doing it. We're very confident and when it's done, the orbiter will be as good as can be when it comes to gap fillers.

We have the feeling that a wide gap has been opened up between us and you during this first round,

To know fully even one field or one land is a lifetime's experience. In the world of poetic experience it is depth that counts, not width. A gap in a hedge, a smooth rock surfacing a narrow lane, a view of a woody meadow, the stream at the junction of four small fields - these are as much as a man can fully experience.

Tiger is not playing as well as he did then. Guys like Vijay, Phil (Mickelson), Davis (Love) and me have elevated a little bit, and the gap has closed a bit. I think guys get to the first tee and really believe they can win with Tiger in the field. Golf will humble the best of them and that's where we are.

We need to find natural gas and oil in order to bridge the gap between now and the commercial development of renewable energy sources.

We know the situation we're in and the gap there is now. We're 10 points behind Liverpool and it will be very hard for us to make that up. We do have Liverpool and Spurs at home still, so hopefully we can make the gap smaller but we know how tough it will be now.

We've been fighting for HB 4756 and we've been fighting for it for the past five years. AAA is very much in support of this. We feel it's the critical gap in an otherwise comprehensive GDL law.

The problem is not we don't have talks, the problem is we need to have more action. The gap is between five of us and one of them.

(The Predators) are obviously our primary competition for the division and it was a chance to really open up a bigger gap and make it more difficult for them to catch us. We're more comfortable.

The problem that exists here is that unless we can close the gap between supply and demand by accelerating productivity, which we are doing in part, then the prosperity that everyone is experiencing would be put in great jeopardy,

We are committed to reducing the tax gap in 2006. The shortfall is blatantly unfair to those of us who pay nearly 20 percent more in state taxes per year while suffering the consequences of reduced state services.

We are in the process of creating the architecture of international accountability for human rights violations. You need to hold individuals responsible, but there is a big gap if you can't say the machinery of a state is responsible, too.

Though the causes may be numerous and valid, the existence of the gap simply means that the completion of the U.S.-funded portion of Iraq's reconstruction will leave many planned projects on the drawing board.

We're losing them because they look over there and they think ? there's this giant gap between what they see and the rhetoric they hear.

The polling shows there's a very clear gender gap on this. It shows 52 per cent of men support more nuclear power while only 30 per cent of women want more nuclear power.

We differ from many designers, in that we both have a love of making furniture. There's no gap between the design, the construction, or the materials, because we not only design the furniture, we are the craftsmen who make it.

When they did that, their supporting cast was shell-shocked. I told my players to go out and think that the score was 0-0 when it was really 26-9. They closed the gap to 29-20 right before the half. That was a big victory for this young team. We just weren't able to sustain it.

When a person dies who does any one thing better than anyone else in the world, which so many others are trying to do well, it leaves a gap in society.

We have listened to our fans, owners and players and made some significant scheduling changes for the 2006 WTT season. By moving the WTT Finals to immediately after the conclusion of the regular season we keep the momentum moving forward for the teams, improve the overall scheduling for the players and keep our fans happy by not having a major gap between the end of the season and the championship weekend.

We're attempting to contract for materials, such as rock, super sand bags, cranes, and also for modes of transportation like barges and helicopters, to close the gap and stop the flow of water.

The rationale for the only recovery plan is to make sure that there is no gap between the end of the relief operation and full-scale reconstruction.

There is a vast gap between what you say and what you do; and between what you are capable of and what you accomplish.

There is a supply chain gap there we will try to fill,

This would have been like having a gap in a picture frame. It was a major issue in town. There were talks of lawsuits. Thank goodness it didn't come to that.

Tipton is an awesome team. We just are trying to close the gap with them. Every meet we try to see what we can do with them.

This startling new data shows that in seven of the ten industries studied, the wage gap between male and female managers widened between 1995 and 2000, ... It's compelling evidence that the glass ceiling remains a powerful obstacle to women in the workforce, and it suggests things may be getting worse, not better.

Today's campaign rhetoric will do nothing to help him bridge his growing credibility gap on the economy. His speech failed to address the mystery of his own budget gap: Which taxes will he raise and which federal spending programs will he cut?

We want to lift all incomes and wealth. We are starting to see that the income gap is largely an education gap.

We are moving forward with a large group of players rather than having five or six guys we brought in to bridge a gap for a year. We had our first taste of the process. The first two months, it was a very bitter taste. We took a lot of ridicule. But we hung together. We are not out of the woods yet, but we've taken steps forward.

The denim market has been such a hot market, yet the Gap has not been able to capitalize on it.

The demands on the network are increasing faster than the total IT staff, creating an operational gap between what customers want to be able to do on their network and what they are actually able to do with their existing IT resources.

The demands on the network are growing faster than the I.T. staff, creating an operational gap between what enterprises want to do with their networks and what they are able to do. By investing in higher levels of network intelligence, they can close that gap.

The demand for the 'luxury look' is back. Americans want to be fashionable and elegantly dressed but that doesn't mean they want to go broke in the process, ... Consumers know that they can get that well-dressed look for an affordable price, and that's why the specialty apparel chains like Gap ( GPS : Research , Estimates ) and Ann Taylor ( ANN : Research , Estimates ) are performing well.

The demand for charter schools is growing. If we are to continue to close the achievement gap in this country and create real opportunity for children, caps on charter schools must be lifted now.

We start from eighth place in the constructors' championship, any improvement is satisfying and we have to make as big a step as we can. I don't promise you podium finishes for this year or even victories but we will make our mark and put everything in place to close the gap to the top teams and get there.

We want to bridge the cross-cultural gap between our people and countries. We want to bring people together and dispel the myths about each country. There are lots of misconceptions. They are begging for reformation of their laws. They want real law and order.

The fact that food sales outperformed other product categories last month is part of what's going on with the economy and its impact on consumers, ... Also, there was a time when Wal-Mart was eating everyone's lunch. Other stores have been getting their act together and they've reduced the growth gap between them and Wal-Mart.

We knew we needed a three-and-out. If we didn't get a three-and-out, we lose the game. So, the guys just rallied. I know I was blitzing every play because I knew they were going to run it. I told Roderick (Rogers, the UW free safety) to check the tight end - I've got that responsibility - in case they ran a bootleg or something else, because I was just flying into the gap and trying to make a tackle.

There are a lot of people of my generation in New Zealand literature, young writers on their first or second books, that I'm just really excited about. There seems to be a big gap between the generation above and us; it seems to be quite radically different in terms of form and approach.

When John announced his plans to retire, we discussed how we would shift the duties. We plan to incorporate the deputy marshal and other qualified personnel from the fire districts to fill the gap during the transition of the department.

With a gap in rebounding like that, we were lucky to be close.

We were working hard to move the ball around against the zone. Their defense took away the post. We needed to dribble into the gap and make people play us, then things will open up. We will learn to move with a purpose against that zone.

We are working essentially to build a leadership force of folks who will, during their first two years of teaching, actually put their kids on a different trajectory - not just survive as a new teacher, but actually help close the achievement gap for their kids.

We can't wait for everybody in this country to get good health insurance, ... When you really want to close a health care gap and you do not have a single health care system, you go to every part of the country and have everybody pull in the same direction.

We closed the gap in terms of participation. When I got here it was more like 65/35.

We have filled in that gap in primary education!

We will grant there is still a significant gap between proposals. But a lot of them relate to job security and provisions that are no cost to the company.

We will continue to see a yen downtrend and dollar uptrend due to the widening gap in interest rates between the two countries.

We will continue to be aggressive. We have to be. We don't have a lot of size. That's kind of our style and our philosophy with Coach (Ward) Weidenbach. We have gap control and we get after people. We don't have the luxury of being able to slug with people. We need good technique and getting 11 guys to the ball.

We would get in the gap and then kick it out 15 feet, and that's nice because you're sharing the ball. But what we were trying to do was put the game away earlier, so we understood how you do put a game away.

This results in an enormous spending gap in our community's support for education. Currently, Northwest is spending $1,600 less on each child than the Hamilton County average.

There is absolutely a gap in the market for thirty something women and, the more I look at it, the more I feel there needs to be a sense of ease and choice.

There is a big gap between the cost of roaming and the charges levied.

When I see people with an interesting gap year, if they can explain it, if they can justify it, if they can show what they've learnt from it, it's sometimes more profitable or more intelligent than having been through a traditional, continuous race from high school to the end of university.

We're trying to attack. If the play is in your gap you've got to show up and make it. That is what he did. That is the nice thing about a 4-3 - you can't run away from the middle linebacker.

We knew that in order to be effective against their defense, someone would have to find the gap and take advantage of it. Bob found that gap again and again in the second half, and we was able to execute well. He played with a lot of heart and a lot of emotion out there tonight.