The fix for Google was simple enough: close the gap.
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Now, "Wonder Woman" has helped close the gap to 3.4%.
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Curious what you can do to help close the gap?
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So how much funding is required to close the gap?
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However, some economists argue policymakers should close the gap faster.
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Bloomberg's team is boasting that he will close the gap.
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And it helped close the gap in Medicare's drug coverage.
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Egypt devalued the pound by 13 percent in March in an effort to close the gap between the official and parallel rates but the move failed to boost dollar liquidity or close the gap.
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Regardless, time is running short for Cox to close the gap.
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So there is hope, and volunteers can help close the gap.
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Leftover bone from the cuts were used to close the gap.
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Detroit used its speed to close the gap in the eighth.
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Kasich's absence should theoretically help Cruz close the gap on Trump.
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People will also try to close the gap in personal space.
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Almost immediately, everyone moved their chairs closer to close the gap.
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But with time dwindling, he had yet to close the gap.
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And Mirren's performance, skillful as it is, doesn't close the gap.
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It will take a lot of votes to close the gap.
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White America is not even psychologically organized to close the gap.
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We always think that we have a chance to close the gap.
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Planned cost cuts are not nearly deep enough to close the gap.
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Jesmuel Valentin added a single to close the gap to 11-3.
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Still, if he were to close the gap -- every vote will matter.
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Soltas and Broockman don't propose specific policy solutions to close the gap.
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"We're not trying to close the gap," Jets Coach Todd Bowles said.
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But it's not just labor laws that would help close the gap.
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But she's working hard to close the gap, and she'll get there.
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Schmidt scored twice in the final 1:52 to close the gap.
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It is work that demands sustained collective action to close the gap.
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"I'm trying to close the gap as little as I can," Osmond said.
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Bovell believes they can close the gap and flip the House in 2020.
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But Durant and Westbrook both scored to close the gap to 224-210.
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What can you think of that could shift this or close the gap?
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Trade apprenticeship programs are helping to close the gap in Germany, for example.
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But they are not seen as sufficient to close the gap by 1.13.
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Another 2628 percent remain undecided, giving Renacci some room to close the gap.
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There may be a way to close the gap from the other end.
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"In academia, we need to close the gap more than we have been."
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"Infinity War" will have to close the gap with a few other films.
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Minor pledges from allies like Japan haven't been enough to close the gap.
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First Teacher aims to close the gap by fostering parents' confidence and competence.
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Fast enough to close the gap, especially if you are not paying attention.
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Ellington then drained a 33-pointer to close the gap to 98-97.
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Public pressures on financial institutions and industry to close the gap technologically will increase.
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However, he wasn't confident that it can close the gap between $2743 and $67.
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While YouTube still trails, it's begun to close the gap with Twitch, it appears.
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They help close the gap in uncovered areas, but are typically costly and slow.
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Predators, meanwhile, are always running faster than their prey, trying to close the gap.
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The Lakers continued to close the gap and trailed 231-257 after one quarter.
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So we'll be working to support leading voter registration efforts to close the gap.
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Boston plated a run in the eighth and ninth but couldn't close the gap.
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Connecticut tried to close the gap in the fourth quarter, but Chicago held strong.
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"We're trying to close the gap between policy interpretation and policy enforcement," Dorsey said.
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Then start making plans to close the gap between your work and your expectations.
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Such a coalition would at least close the gap and perhaps make her competitive.
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Earlier this year, he submitted a bill to close the gap on U.S. legislation.
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But Bernasconi believes they do not have the time to close the gap entirely.
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That growth would help Asia "close the gap with other regions," the report said.
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The takeover helped the group close the gap on private rival China Hongqiao Group.
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Since the hurricanes, forward-looking farmers are stepping up efforts to close the gap.
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He said it will likely close the gap between rural and urban parts of China.
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The Pistons showed some signs of life to close the gap to 205, 287-278.
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Local NGOs try to close the gap, but they typically suffer from severe resource constraints.
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I won a lot of states, but I couldn't close the gap in pledged delegates.
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Apple's iPhone XS cameras close the gap, but they can't eclipse Google's Pixel 2 achievements.
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"We see ourselves as a strong number two… and are pushing to close the gap."
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The Timberwolves did close the gap in the third quarter behind strong play from Teague.
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Succop connected on a 33-yard field goal to close the gap to 17-13.
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"I was just hoping to close the gap just a little bit more," Smith said.
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Two-year technical training, coupled with on-the-job learning, can help close the gap.
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Sanders also had a surprising ability to close the gap among black voters in Michigan.
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Many sophisticated analysts would have recognized that Mr. Jones was poised to close the gap.
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But some analysts said Airbus may have to offer large discounts to close the gap.
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A wooden ramp was inserted to close the gap between the train and the platform.
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He can also close the gap on Federer's men's record of Grand Slam singles titles.
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The Utes didn't have a chance to close the gap much further for a while.
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But the squad faces a race against time to close the gap on the Dutch.
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Ross started to close the gap, but Burr has rebounded in the most recent polls.
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Childress drained a 3 with 29 seconds left to close the gap to 133-80.
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Spieth stacked up five birdies in a flawless first nine to close the gap to four.
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Baez led off the second with his 21st homer to close the gap to 4-53.
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Gordon hit a jumper and Vucevic a free throw to close the gap to 103-102.
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Lillard hit two foul shots to close the gap to 101-98 with 47.9 seconds left.
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All offseason and throughout the year, the aim was to close the gap with the Cavaliers.
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The more votes that can be counted, the greater the possibility they can close the gap.
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The tax benefits of these plans will help close the gap to your goals more quickly.
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This could help VW speed up its AV development and close the gap on its rivals.
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House Speaker Paul Ryan's retirement could help another Berniecrat, Randy Bryce, close the gap in Wisconsin.
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He's got a plan to help close the gap, and it relies on studying what works.
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And so there's no question we could close the gap on trade if they wish to.
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It took six years, but the CNBC Disruptor 229 list is starting to close the gap.
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Inter rose to fourth, but fifth-place Fiorentina can close the gap on Roma on Sunday.
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Semantic Machines has aims to close the gap here and let memory stretch even further back.
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"The steps we will take will promote growth and help us close the gap," he said.
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Both my parents worked two jobs on and off throughout my childhood to close the gap.
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With the right investments made today, it need not take 80 years to close the gap.
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But even the 3 percent (or higher) growth that the president promises won't close the gap.
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Or at least, it can help close the gap—and maybe even layer on some advantages.
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Writedowns ease disposals as they help to close the gap between book values and market prices.
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But Lankford added that both sides are digging in, rather than trying to close the gap.
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Maryland's Cowan hit a 3-pointer and Morsell dunked to close the gap to 32-26.
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Whether the special release will help James close the gap with Jordan remains to be seen.
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So he's hiring people who can close the gap between traditional urban policy and the latest technology.
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But that means Tesla is more reliant than ever on Model 2000 sales to close the gap.
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Helping Renegades grab another win to close the gap in the first game, Jks fired into Virtus.
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"We've got to close the gap a little bit between the rhetoric and the reality," he pleaded.
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"I think there may be some room for them to close the gap," said trader Tim Seymour.
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The RNC says it can close the gap and intends to do highly granular modeling for Trump.
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It is, however, a good sign that networks were willing to make moves to close the gap.
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David Freese only needed one pitch to close the gap to 2-1, hitting a 92-m.p.h.
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The sustained success has allowed Stetson to close the gap in college baseball's arms race, as well.
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How hard would it be to close the gap, and what plans are there for doing it?
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It's a decision that aims to close the gap between U.S. weather climate agencies and international agencies.
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The BBC said their workloads were not equitable, but has agreed to close the gap this year.
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Rubio's campaign is also banking on a renewed anti-Trump push to help him close the gap.
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Can Klobuchar find the moment (again) that she will need to close the gap with the frontrunners?
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Is Walmart cheating in its race to close the gap between Amazon and its own online business?
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As he tries to close the gap with Clinton, Sanders has to come on strong and confident tonight.
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But on Tuesday he lost ground in the delegate count when he desperately needs to close the gap.
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Orlando's Jonathon Simmons scored on a drive with 6.7 seconds left to close the gap to 115-112.
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Economies are more successful when we close the gap between rich and poor and growth is broadly based.
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With its new hardware and service plans, Eero hopes to close the gap and even surpass its competition.
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But did he do anything to close the gap with key swing state constituencies he needs to win?
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But the goal is to ultimately close the gap on the Falcon 29's turnaround time between flights.
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With a few days until the election, it's unlikely her campaign will be able to close the gap.
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And yet, Clinton's attacks don't seem to be working: Sanders continues to close the gap in national polls.
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Clinton with women and Hispanic voters, he will need robust evangelical turnout in November to close the gap.
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But there is opportunity for you to take small steps to close the gap in what separates you.
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The availability of low-cost pregnancy tests, contraceptives and abortions will help to close the gap even further.
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The Clinton campaign believes it can close the gap, especially in North Carolina and Florida, by Election Day.
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But we have a long way to go to close the gap between educational opportunity and meaningful work.
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Every time Kentucky tried to close the gap, a bad shot or decision caused the momentum to fizzle.
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You have to close the gap to sok glap, but you have to "mind the gap" as well.
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When the results weren't meeting their exceedingly high expectations, they turned to unethical behavior to close the gap.
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His second interception came late in the fourth quarter, when the Cowboys were struggling to close the gap.
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West Virginia missed three free throws in a one-minute span that helped the Sooners close the gap.
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It's uncertain whether the rally has enough momentum to close the gap with the post-Thanksgiving 503 levels.
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"They need to close the gap on tea and coffee and Pepsi has a clear advantage," he said.
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They play Burnley later on Wednesday, hoping to close the gap to fourth placed Chelsea to three points.
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The Cowboys kicked another field goal to close the gap to 17-9 with eight minutes to go.
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New York (CNN Business)The owner of Schick razors needs to close the gap with Gillette, its biggest rival.
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That stout shield saved his pretty face long enough for him to close the gap and begin pummeling Ramsay.
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And here's the truth: Even the most ardent gun control advocates aren't pushing measures that could close the gap.
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Some U.S. companies have discovered a way to close the gap: putting more women on their boards of directors.
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"We have tried to close the gap," Vettel, who won his four titles with Red Bull, told the formula1.
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Still, experts have told CNBC that China won't close the gap with other countries for at least a decade.
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Gesture recognition technology aims to close the gap between humans and devices by teaching computers to read human movements.
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Top Sanders advisor Ted Devine admitted to The Washington Post, however, that the candidate must "significantly" close the gap.
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Pay transparency laws represent the latest effort to close the gap, which has remained stubbornly in place for decades.
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Robinson sunk a pair of free throws at the 211:143 mark to close the gap to 214-274.
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If this is the case, it may be possible for some of the underperforming producers to close the gap.
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It could still close the gap as its Political Victory Fund had $8.9 million on hand as of Oct.
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If they can stay healthy, they can close the gap on Ottawa for the third spot in the Atlantic.
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And he needs to run up the score in cities and close the gap in suburban Houston and Dallas.
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Moe Harkless and Lillard knocked down back-to-back treys for Portland to close the gap to 58-56.
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Trump on Monday said he would close the gap in voter popularity separating him from Clinton before this November.
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"We've realized that to close the gap we have to focus more on the human factors," Samuelsson told Reuters.
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Sanders has continued to close the gap between him and Clinton and has been campaigning hard across the state.
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Such additions could help Fitbit close the gap in features and functionality when compared to its much pricier competitor.
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Democrats think it's possible for him to close the gap if 2016 is a good year for the party.
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After two free throws by Aaron Thompson, Tillman sank another 173-pointer to close the gap to 217-29.
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Though he started the season with a clear speed advantage, Larson has seen the Hendrick organization close the gap.
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Miami rallied and went on a 83-2 run later to close the gap to 43-37 at halftime.
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Whether that can close the gap between him and Trump in the Florida polls, however, remains to be seen.
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The drop undercut progress the company had been making in its bid to close the gap with Chinese rivals.
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But through hard work, the Congolese are striving to close the gap between poverty and prosperity, chaos and stability.
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Louis Cardinals); or helping a playoff team close the gap with the champion Boston Red Sox (Yankees, Houston Astros).
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Michael Brooks weighs in on the depths of global inequality and what can be done to close the gap.
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Creighton missed its next eight shots, helping the Sooners (7-3) close the gap to as little as two.
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The Tigers had three chances on their next possession to close the gap but missed three 3-point attempts.
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Until it closes the savings gap, no amount of diplomacy, bullying or cajoling will close the gap in trade.
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Clinton's backers here believe there is a chance she can close the gap with Mr. Sanders over the last week.
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And Obamacare helped close the gap in Medicare's drug coverage and was on track to completely eliminate it by 212.7.
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Some companies are trying to close the gap by providing diversity training to increase the awareness of engrained gender biases.
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Amazon, of course, knew these disparities better than anyone, and started making moves that same year to close the gap.
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Now, says Cayo Cotter, her organization is closely working with Starbucks and others who are yet to close the gap.
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Scott's spending advantage helped him build an early polling lead, and Nelson was never quite able to close the gap.
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Methods to close the gap include reaching out to small and medium-sized businesses and utilizing technologies like machine learning.
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"To meaningfully close the gap, organisations need to develop a culture of equality at work," Pearce told CNBC via email.
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Democrats now have another important notch on their belt, and will close the gap in the Senate to 51-49.
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While the plan proposes some revenue-generating measures to close the gap, it relies heavily on cutting repayments to bondholders.
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Alone, T-Mobile has 70.7 million customers, requiring a lot more good quarters to close the gap on its own.
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Those votes now represent the only chance Nelson has to close the gap, and even then, the likelihood is dim.
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"He's got the ability to close the gap if he stays disciplined and focuses on the economy," the source said.
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We make most of our decisions with incomplete information, which means we have to make assumptions to close the gap.
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And Obamacare helped close the gap in Medicare's drug coverage and was on track to completely eliminate it by 236.
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At the current pace, WEF estimates it will take 202 years to close the gap women face in the workplace.
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And with so many delegates already allotted by mid-March, Rubio would face an uphill struggle to close the gap.
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Given the newness of the market for artificially intelligent home gadgets, Google has plenty of time to close the gap.
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If a fabric or device printed with this magnetic ink breaks, the particles attract one another and close the gap.
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"One thing I'm certain is the spotlight Bill is shining on this is going to close the gap," Gerstner said.
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Michigan State (3-1) led by 31-3 before letting Central Michigan (1-4) close the gap in the fourth.
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Closing the gap in America's defensesFortunately, more states, localities and companies are working to close the gap in America's defenses.
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The television channel isn't the only employer that has struggled to close the gap in paying men and women equally.
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New York City is one of the in America, but new data suggests Boston is starting to close the gap.
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To close the gap, the study's authors suggested on NPR that women think of home as a long term investment.
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It's also widely assumed that Apple will close the gap with the Pixel by introducing some sort of night mode.
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Despite the balanced scoring effort, the visitors from the Big Sky Conference could not close the gap to single digits.
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Right now, both T-Series and Kjellberg have around 70 million subscribers, though the production company continues to close the gap.
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The driver behind this trend has been China's need to acquire know-how to close the gap with more advanced economies.
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A dangerous South Africa tackle gave Biggar an opportunity to close the gap to 9-6 shortly before the half ended.
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Stanford had an opportunity to close the gap after Utah scored just two points over the final 10 minutes before halftime.
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Here are my top seven recommendations on how to close the gap between what you're saying and what you're actually doing:
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But Monday's plan won't have a dedicated policy on how to close the gap between the two sectors, according to Hertog.
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That statistic hasn't budged at all since Trump took office, and the administration has actively undermined efforts to close the gap.
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Dr Hartung believes machine learning, with its power to find patterns in large quantities of data, could help close the gap.
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In the last two years, the pace of job creation has accelerated, helping to close the gap with the national average.
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Brooklyn closed to within 99-92 on a layup by Harris with 10:21 left but couldn't close the gap further.
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Measures Sudan is studying include lifting subsidies and taking steps to close the gap between the official and unofficial exchange rates.
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Analysts closely watch Microsoft's cloud computing business as the company attempts to close the gap with the dominant Amazon Web Services.
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Trump has started to close the gap in the wake of the FBI's decision to review new emails from former Rep.
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He is fatally unpopular with female voters and minorities, and not nearly popular enough with white men to close the gap.
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Texas had several chances to get back into the game, scoring twice in the eighth to close the gap to two.
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The pressure was on for the candidates vying to close the gap on Trump's growing lead in the overall nominating contest.
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The USDA claims its proposed rules will close the gap between what consumers clearly want from organic farms and the reality.
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Gronkowski did not return, but running back James White scored to close the gap to a far more comfortable 14-10.
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We want to somehow close the gap between them, the stars that produce culture, and us, the audiences who consume it.
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Over their recent 2853-2285 funk, which allowed Oakland to close the gap, the Yankees woefully underperformed with men on base.
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Washington opened the fourth quarter on a 20-11 run to close the gap to 112-105 with 6:08 remaining.
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The Grizzlies outscored the Lakers 36-24 in the third to close the gap to 84-77 heading into the fourth.
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Though ground stations strategically placed on islands could close the gap, Handley suspects terminals attached to ships would still be needed.
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Apple is playing catch-up in this area and Spectral Edge certainly looks like a positive step to close the gap.
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It surely won't dethrone Tesla's status as the leader in EVs and in-car technology, but it helps close the gap.
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Buffalo squandered a chance to close the gap on idle Pittsburgh in the race for the Eastern Conference's final playoff spot.
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Wal-Mart has snapped up another online retailer, its third in five months, as it works to close the gap with Amazon.com.
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Proposals to close the gap include cuts in funding for early childhood education to new fees for state-run assisted living facilities.
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They need to make more than passing references to girls and women-led organizations who know what's needed to close the gap.
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Nowitzki scored 13 points in the quarter, including 10.13-pointers on back-to-back possessions to close the gap to 70-57.
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Uber invented ride-hailing, and it can continue to maintain a sizable market share, if not close the gap with some investment.
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Abraham Toro had an RBI double in the seventh and RBI single in the ninth to help the Astros close the gap.
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Organizations like Staff Up Congress, an initiative from the NALEO Educational Fund and the Joint Center, are seeking to close the gap.
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As Rose and Hartmann note, paid family leave, available and used by both men and women, would likely help close the gap.
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In this instance, Walmart is paying up big in a bet that Lore can help close the gap between Amazon and Walmart.com.
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After much pressure from activists, governments have channelled increasing amounts of money and political will in an effort to "close the gap".
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Many fintech companies are starting to address pay period timing, in hopes they can close the gap between income and consumption needs.
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"All of a sudden it appears we may close the gap with the U.S more meaningfully than we would've thought," said Taylor.
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They offer enough financial aid to completely close the gap between the cost of college and what a student's family can pay.
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Iowa State led by eight with 4 seconds left before Wainright and guard King McClure nailed 225-pointers to close the gap.
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Third-place Roma missed the chance to close the gap with Napoli to 3 points as it drew, 3-3, at Atalanta.
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There are other, far more distant techniques that may someday close the gap between the supply of transplantable organs and their demand.
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Tourism might close the gap, but it tends to concentrate on a few spectacular sites like the Serengeti and Kruger National Park.
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With control of both houses of Congress and the White House, Republicans need to close the gap between theory and practice quickly.
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Facing investor pressure to close the gap, American Express has offered merchants incentives up to $450,13 to begin accepting its credit cards.
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Perhaps an establishment candidate can close the gap in the final hours, but Marco Rubio and John Kasich are splitting those votes.
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A decisive win in a delegate-rich state like New York or California could close the gap between him and frontrunner Trump.
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The Republicans got the jump on Democrats in 2010, and it seems like it will be near-impossible to close the gap.
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North Carolina held 19-5 and 29-15 leads, with the Wolfpack answering with a 10-0 run to close the gap.
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Politically, however, there is no credible route for Sanders to close the gap — especially with the tide running so strongly against him.
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But as major counties tallied their provisional ballots this week, it became clearer that Mr. Colyer was unlikely to close the gap.
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Medicare has started to close the gap in payment rates between hospital-owned clinics and private doctor's offices through site-neutral payments.
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How can they close the gap on the Astros, who have toppled them twice in the A.L.C.S. over the past three years?
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He came to the organization as it charts out a $75 million plan to help liberals close the gap with Trump online.
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Instead of working to close the gap between the rich and the poor, poverty and homelessness are being criminalized around the world.
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The home team was especially spirited in the second half, but failed to close the gap, finally losing, 3-2, to Monaco.
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Sanders's narrow victory in Indiana on Tuesday night won't significantly close the gap in Clinton's huge lead in popular votes and delegates.
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Here are the takeaways:Bleacher Report wants to woo casual sports gamers as a way to close the gap with competitors including ESPN.
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While Wisconsin is similarly viewed as a long-shot for Trump, an appearance with Ryan could have helped him close the gap.
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In the fall, the company said it would invest an additional $2 billion into those efforts to try to close the gap.
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The good news is that the $715 billion he could get from eliminating spending on veterans would pretty much close the gap.
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In the beauty community, that means special deals that, if only for a day, help close the gap on the silly pink tax.
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Some analysts said the latest Opdivo setback was good news for AstraZeneca and Roche, allowing them to close the gap on Bristol-Myers.
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In Elo, he trails Mr Djokovic by approximately 110 points, and each victory against him would close the gap by about 20 points.
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But BovControl, a Brazilian startup building data analytics tools to support livestock operations, is working to close the gap between technologists and ranchers.
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Because Democrats allocate delegates proportionally, Sanders needs to not only win, but win by very large margins to close the gap with Clinton.
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It was the play of Barnes and Festus Ezeli that helped Golden State close the gap to two midway through the second quarter.
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For his part, Donald Trump, of all people, has long promised to close the gap between people of color and their white counterparts.
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Abrams is holding on to hope that she can either close the gap enough to trigger a recount, or even a runoff election.
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With Nike having long dominated the running footwear category, Adidas is starting to close the gap with the world's No. 1 athletic brand.
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DePaul went on to lead by as many as 11 points and it took nearly nine minutes for Providence to close the gap.
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Cal had a chance to close the gap with three minutes remaining in the first half after a 35-yard Anderson field goal.
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In the meeting, Katie's boss assured their clients that Katie would be able to close the gap on the project in two days.
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I did everything to try and close the gap but unfortunately this is the Olympics, you don't fix a mistake like that easily.
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Several bills before the City Council attempt to close the gap between law and practice by allowing street hails and ramping up enforcement.
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Djokovic, seeking a record- equaling sixth ATP Finals title, can close the gap further on Tuesday when he takes on Austrian Dominic Thiem.
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Both have led polls in Michigan for some time and are heavy favorites, but they also have rivals seeking to close the gap.
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Kansas answered with a 4-yard pass from Stanley to Michael Zunica and added a field goal but could not close the gap.
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Peak later knocked down a 243-pointer and Pryor hit a layup to close the gap to 228-2499 with 21994:295 left.
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After 40 kilometers, there was a turning point, and I knew, 'Okay Anna, two kilometers to go to close the gap to Lisa.
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On election night, Bavarian conservatives announced that they will want to close the gap to the far right AfD, especially on refugee policy.
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Democrats largely will have a spot on the ballot in November, and still have time to close the gap against their Republican rivals.
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Jerome tried to keep the Cavaliers in it, hitting a 3-pointer to close the gap to 64-56 with 653:15 remaining.
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But soon enough, you're training around injuries that don't go away, trying to close the gap between chronological and biological age with experience.
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That is largely because he understands the historical distance between the nation's rulers and its people — and has vowed to close the gap.
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The Voting Rights Act allowed the federal government to work to close the gap between theoretical rights and real participation for black Southerners.
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The Yankees did their best to further close the gap, defeating the Tampa Bay Rays, 227-213, on Wednesday night at Yankee Stadium.
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The former east's far-right swing could now make it harder to spur the political and financial changes needed to close the gap.
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AMD will continue to close the gap between its laptop processors and Intel's, especially as more software starts to optimize for AMD's hardware.
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Girard made two fouls shots 13 seconds later and Bourama Sidibe scored after a Duke turnover to close the gap to 79-74.
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"She's helping us close the gap between the people who build software and the people who like to explore how to break it."
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After Jose Osuna struck out, rookie Austin Meadows hit his third homer to close the gap to 5-4, chasing reliever Amir Garrett.
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When the U.S. was behind in the space race, the legislative and executive branch worked to put together programs to close the gap.
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Rashod Bateman made a great catch in the end zone on a 17-yard pass from Annexstad to close the gap to 21-10.
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And I believe that there is a willingness on both sides to do that, and we'll see whether they can actually close the gap.
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The Treasury secretary declined to speculate on whether the two countries would be able to close the gap before the end of the week.
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Renault's latest specification engine, which Red Bull use with Tag Heuer branding, has provided a good boost in horsepower to help close the gap.
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Domestic production and imports of other animal proteins like poultry, beef, mutton and seafood will also increase to partially close the gap, Sherrard said.
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If United can close the gap this weekend, there's a genuine possibility that Arsenal will throw away their final chance of silverware this season.
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She did close the gap to 4-3 before Garcia held her nerve to break again and wrap up victory with a forehand winner.
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South Carolina rallied from a 30-19 deficit and used an 383-2 run to close the gap to 32-28 at the break.
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The settlement also helps Apple close the gap with rivals such as South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co and Huawei in delivering a 5G phone.
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Edwards captured the black vote by 32 points, a dominant margin in its own right, but not one big enough to close the gap.
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To help close the gap, one Pentagon unit is now offering $100,000 in prizes to develop algorithms that can interpret high-resolution satellite images.
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Xander Bogaerts had a two-run single off Beeks in the third inning, allowing the Red Sox to close the gap to 3-2.
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But it helps close the gap between kids who can play Mavis Beacon or whatever on school computers and vision-impaired kids who can't.
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Amp is already improving pickup times and reducing cancellation rates and, if it works as planned, could help Lyft close the gap with Uber.
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While the U.S. currently leads the world in high-performance computing development and usage, other countries have devoted significant resources to close the gap.
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Sherwood netted the winner at 11:22, capitalizing on a Canucks giveaway, but Leivo and Pearson scored 54 seconds apart to close the gap.
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Before Saturday's result, the largest question looming over the Democratic race was whether Sanders could close the gap behind Clinton among African-American voters.
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A per capita cap would reduce federal spending by 6 percent over five years, requiring states to spend $1.5 billion to close the gap.
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And not knowing why we're suddenly not quite as tight can often make it harder to close the gap between us: distance begets distance.
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"Last night proved Democrats can close the gap anywhere, even in the reddest districts," said Tom Perez, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
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They've always existed, but the internet has given us a way to close the gap between ourselves and the people who share our beliefs.
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That's the only way to conclusively close the gap between the revenue YouTube generates and what songwriters, artists, publishers and labels make in return.
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Most of the time, the show's exposition and Strahovski's performance are enough to close the gap between what Serena says and what she's thinking.
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"I hope this is the year where we start to close the gap between the speculative value and the actual value," Mr. Mougayar said.
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UrbanStems wants to close the gap, making the process of ordering beautiful flowers a seamless, pleasant experience for both the buyer and the recipient.
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La Liga, the Spanish top flight, has worked to close the gap by opening offices around the world to try to build its audience.
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The rise in homelessness is arguably the mayor's biggest failure in that goal to close the gap between the haves and the have-nots.
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Rookie RJ Barrett's layup trimmed the Spurs' lead to 105-98 with 3:30 left, but New York was unable to close the gap.
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The Ducks outshot the Devils 11-4 in the third period and pulled Miller with 4:03 left but could not close the gap.
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The central bank devalued the pound by 13 percent in March in an effort to close the gap between the official and parallel rates.
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Revenue for the Azure business was up 120 percent in the previous quarter as Microsoft was trying to close the gap with market leader Amazon.
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Wild defenseman Ryan Suter beat Crawford and clanked the crossbar with a shot on the next shift, but the Wild could not close the gap.
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Whether that's enough to close the gap is still unclear, but Apple Music isn't relying on its brand alone in its attempt to catch Spotify.
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However, in Fitch's view, Bank DKI is not likely to be able to close the gap with larger banks in the short- to medium-term.
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Citi said DCM activity is lower this quarter, which could be due to the rate environment, but stronger M&A fees could close the gap.
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Muguruza continued to close the gap by holding to love then breaking the crumbling Latvian a second time to get the set back on serve.
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More broadly, as those risk premiums slowly normalize, we expect Swiss equities to continue to outperform and close the gap between fundamentals and market prices.
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Together, these four technological developments will close the gap between higher education and the labor market and usher in a new era in human capital.
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But regulators are keen to close the gap between what banks sell their loans for and what the debt collection companies are ready to pay.
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What women can do Even if core training doesn't help close the gap, it might help with the associated pelvic floor issues and back pain.
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Brown rushed in for his second score at 3:49 to close the gap to 31-26, but Clifford injured his leg after the exchange.
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To close the gap on technology acquisition via the venture capital route, legislative efforts are being devised that will provide added muscle to CFIUS. Rep.
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Eliminating the mountain of special interest loopholes, while also streamlining the entire process, will close the gap between the special interests and middle class Americans.
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Like Bost and Chabot, Faso lags his opponent in fundraising, although millions in outside spending have helped the Republicans close the gap in each district.
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Help us close the gap between adult and pediatric medical device innovation to bring beneficial new technologies and treatments to children faster than ever before.
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The open questions are whether the N.F.L. can close the gap in timing, and whether fans, receiving a high-quality video for free, will care.
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Cruz split victories in Saturday's contests with Trump, helping the Texas senator close the gap as he positions himself as the viable anti-Trump alternative.
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Sanders is still in the race, and the Western contests will help him, but the time he has to close the gap is running out.
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The former vice president also won Latino voters in Virginia and South Carolina, denying Sanders an avenue to close the gap in those Southern states.
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Senior reporter Mara Leighton tried Thrive Market and was impressed by its mission to close the gap between organic foods and their traditionally high costs.
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The Rockets lost for the third time in four games, falling behind late in the first quarter and laboring in vain to close the gap.
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And even a stronger emphasis on new technology will not immediately close the gap between Ford and its competitors that are developing self-driving equipment.
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Though the country's Bundesliga remains well behind England's Premier League in terms of international reach, it is doing all it can to close the gap.
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Thiem's last real chance to close the gap came with Djokovic serving at 24-3, but at 15-30 Djokovic reeled off three straight points.
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"There's some research out there that shows that when kids enter the kindergarten door behind in math, it's hard to close the gap," she said.
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Boothe pointed to Rubio's ability to close the gap in the Virginia primary, where the Florida senator finished 3 points behind front-runner Donald Trump.
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In response, The California-based organization Women in Animation has launched a gender parity initiative, "50/50 by 2025" to try to close the gap.
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It appeared to close the gap to a goal when Salomaki's bad-angle wrister squirted through Varlamov's legs at 17:17 of the second period.
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Though China is now working to close the gap, that early investment "provides the foundation for the emergence of unicorns," the Credit Suisse researchers added.
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In an attempt last month to close the gap between official and black market rates, the central bank devalued the currency to 8.78 from 7.73.
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"If AWS keeps executing as it is doing presently, it will be close to impossible for competitors to close the gap with them," Cordwell said.
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Over time, he's learned managers should be honest with employees by explaining their gap in skills and then create a plan to close the gap.
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He made back-to-back bogeys on the front nine that put him six behind, and then ran off three birdies to close the gap.
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Countries will need to close the gap between their stated ambitions and the actions they are currently taking by 2030 to avoid catastrophic climate change.
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The central bank devalued the pound by about 14 percent in March in an effort to close the gap between the official and black market rates.
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"They moved Michael because they are trying to close the gap [in ratings with the Today show] with a younger demographic" for GMA, said the source.
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The German told reporters at the Malaysian Grand Prix on Thursday that he felt he still had time to close the gap on his Mercedes rival.
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In the last couple of years, Google has made significant improvements in an attempt to close the gap with Apple and iOS in terms of security.
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Syracuse went scoreless on four straight possessions before Brissett's three-point play off a rebound at the 34.3-second mark close the gap to 12-64.
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Conversations are finally being had about how the industry can better support and empower women in their jobs, but also about how to close the gap.
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The Clinton campaign will probably be OK with that as fewer people watching the debates would hurt Trump's chances to close the gap in the polls.
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We came through 750 and I said we need to really fight for our lives here but we were never really able to close the gap.
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Pornhub Cares has also created sex education videos for both older and younger viewers to help close the gap in our understanding of sex and pleasure.
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Pluto will soon become even less so, as her gravitational pull will allow it to slip away from Mercury in short twos to close the gap.
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It's time to truly close the gap on America's "digital divide" because leaving Americans behind as we sprint towards a more connected tomorrow isn't an option.
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"This weekend, the biggest aim was to close the gap as much as possible and we failed," said Vettel, who has not won for 16 races.
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Not only would Tesla need to supply enough batteries to close the gap, it would need to simultaneously reduce vehicle charging downtime while increasing battery output.
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Beijing and Shanghai already have a charging point within a radius of 5km of another, and other cities like Guangzhou are racing to close the gap.
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Rubio's team is banking on game-changing moments in Thursday night's CNN debate in Miami, hoping that could help the senator close the gap in Florida.
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However, in Fitch's view, it is unlikely that Bank DKI will be able to close the gap with larger banks in the short to medium term.
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Krug then beat Bobrovsky at 10:26 of the third to close the gap and Marchand delivered the equalizer on a power play at 11:47.
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Now that it's the underdog to Sony's massively successful PlayStation 4, the company is looking at ways to close the gap and expand the Xbox platform.
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Now that it's the underdog to Sony's massively successful PlayStation 22014, the company is looking at ways to close the gap and expand the Xbox platform.
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Because United's largest competitors — Delta Air Lines and American Airlines — both have wider profit margins, Mr. Munoz is under pressure from investors to close the gap.
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When Google named Diane Greene as head of its cloud division that same year, her unit was desperate to close the gap with Amazon Web Services.
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Sanders hopes to close the gap in pledged delegates there use that to sway superdelegates — party leaders who can back any candidate — from Clinton to him.
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In our communities, we are working to raise local funds for these critical projects but we need a strong federal partner to help close the gap.
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The GOP will attempt to close the gap by claiming that economic growth spurred by the cuts will yield larger tax revenues—a long-discredited argument.
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Rooms could benefit from adding a barrier to the bottom of the door, to help close the gap and soften the sound of doors slamming harshly.
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NUREMBERG, Germany (Reuters) - Germany called on Tuesday for European cooperation on developing artificial intelligence (AI) to close the gap on leaders China and the United States.
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That left little room for rivals hurriedly trying to close the gap before voting begins for real to choose the party's nominee for November's general election.
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"Our bipartisan, bicameral proposal will close the gap in the TSCA's shortcomings by requiring the EPA to protect our most vulnerable from unsafe chemicals," said Green.
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Those expansions happened — haltingly — because of the mighty, often deadly, struggles of Americans determined to close the gap between our founding flaws and our democratic aspirations.
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These same large investors are also under tremendous pressure to meet their own deadlines and goals, like underfunded pensions that desperately need to close the gap.
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But the battle for the living room has barely begun, and analysts will be watching closely to see how Google's team aims to close the gap.
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Trump will need to close the gap to remain competitive, and attracting working-class voters in the Rust Belt will be crucial for him in November.
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However opinion polls suggest Sinn Fein is set to strengthen its position as the third largest party and close the gap on the two bigger ones.
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Green scored on a dunk to close the gap to 109-108, but Mason Plumlee's layup pushed Portland in front 101-98 with 58.6 seconds left.
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It cited the "urgent need" to close the gap between existing emissions pledges and the temperature goals of the Paris agreement to avert catastrophic global warming.
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But Democrats see the poll as evidence that they can start to close the gap in a district that went big for both Trump and Franks.
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"As we head into 2020 we believe this next phase of cloud is Microsoft's to go after and further close the gap with AWS," Ives said.
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A Conversation with Lara Trump: As some polls show GOP support among women could be waning, how is the Trump campaign working to close the gap?
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After school and summer school enrichment programs can provide additional academic support to help close the gap between low-income students and their more privileged peers.
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The American Society of Civil Engineers recently gave the country's infrastructure a D+, and estimated it would take $2 trillion over 10 years to close the gap.
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According to a Reuters analysis of industry production and capacity data, GM's plans will only partially close the gap between capacity and demand for the automaker's sedans.
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The border-adjusted tax would bring in more than $1 trillion in federal revenue over a decade, according to the Tax Foundation, helping to close the gap.
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The Beavers went up 44-33 on a 3-pointer by senior guard Langston Morris-Walker and led 51-40 before Stanford rallied to close the gap.
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Pittsburgh's Jamel Artis made two foul shots at the 235-second mark to close the gap to 234-214, then the Panthers regained possession on a turnover.
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Despite its impressive rollout of new weapons and the development of new capabilities, however, China isn't ready to close the gap on the United States just yet.
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The stock market's rally on Tuesday was "justified" by five distinct factors, Cramer argued after the major averages attempted to close the gap on their October losses.
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When black women are not provided the same foundation for opportunity and access as their counterparts, they will always be on a race to close the gap.
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In an attempt to close the gap between official and black market rates, the central bank devalued the currency to 8.85 per dollar from 7.7301 last month.
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Most of the revenues for Malloy's plan to close the gap in the current fiscal year come from emptying the state's nearly $236 million budget reserve fund.
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In an attempt to close the gap between official and black market rates the central bank devalued the currency to 8.85 per dollar from 7.7301 this month.
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President Bill Clinton popularized the idea of a "digital divide" between rich and poor, and some American schools began issuing students individual computers to close the gap.
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Providing housing complexes with free gigabit internet is part of the ongoing effort to close the gap between the haves and the have-nots in the country.
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There is a need for both sides to take the time necessary to close the gap between CVID (complete, verifiable, and irreversible denuclearization) and the Libyan model.
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The Nets answered with a 12-1 rush at the end of the half, one featuring eight points from Sloan, to close the gap to 53-45.
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Mommers' research also led to him conclude that although surgery can help close the gap and make the belly flatter, it doesn't necessarily lead to more stability.
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The most effective way to close the gap between your current retirement savings and future needs is by taking advantage of a combination of the above options.
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"Older, particularly Southern, gentlemen have always loved the brand, but we need to close the gap between our perceived quality and our actual quality," Ms. Batchelor said.
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But Austin told Business Insider that Proper No. Twelve would release further expressions as it looks to close the gap with the leading Irish whiskey brand, Jameson.
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Another major K Street player, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, is continuing to close the gap between them and Akin Gump, the long-standing highest-grossing lobbying shop.
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It then follows Trixie and Iggy, a couple of militarized replicants who want to close the gap between themselves and humans with a Mr. Robot-style revolution.
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The United States will run a deficit as long as it depends on foreign money to close the gap between what it saves and what it spends.
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To parents like him who cannot afford tutors, it is just another way that the new system still fails to close the gap between rich and poor.
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This year, I am sending a bill to the State Legislature that will close the gap between what our criminal justice system says and what it does.
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Houston and Oklahoma City, determined to close the gap with the runaway Warriors in the Western Conference, swung as big as they could in retooling their rosters.
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Terry Thomas ran a brilliant third leg for Jamaica and managed to close the gap but Benjamin charged on the last leg to secure the U.S. win.
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The Jaguars then moved 25 yards, but settled for Josh Lambo's 183-yard field goal at the 218:256 mark to close the gap to 210-27.
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However, as the natural decline in existing production will likely be faster than the decline in oil demand, new investments will be need to close the gap.
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A full 16 percent of Democratic primary voters are undecided, leaving room for Canova to close the gap or for Wasserman Schultz to put the race away.
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Having exchanged cuts in the opening rounds, Ruiz Jr. found that, when he was able to close the gap and punch in the clinch, he had success.
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It remains unclear whether that fight will prompt the kind of cash infusion for Republican candidates that they need to close the gap with their Democratic opponents.
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Promises that reduce the impact of chronic disease, raise the health status of American Indian/Alaska Native people, close the gap on health disparities and save lives.
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"The reason why I think it's important to have an Indigenous-specific one is to help close the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians," he explained.
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But in Michigan, Sanders did close the gap slightly, winning 30 percent of African-American voters, after idling in the teens among black voters in recent contests.
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The Bulldogs were up 25-235 with less than eight minutes to go before the Tigers recovered again to close the gap to two in the closing seconds.
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But, argues Shewki, the move to VR was initially a backwards step in this regard, as it required additional technology to close the gap between player and spectator.
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After Brennan was picked off at the Syracuse 249, the Orange continued their assault with an 80-yard, 13-play drive to close the gap to 28-26.
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Meade&aposs camp has been unflinchingly optimistic, however, touting internal surveys putting him in second and predicting enough undecided voters will swing his way to close the gap.
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These acquisitions suggest an investment in Microsoft's first-party development platform that could help close the gap, or prepare a real blitz for the next generation of consoles.
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However, that also means Ingram has a good chance to rapidly improve toward the end of season; by then, he very well may close the gap with Simmons.
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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's global initiative has worked to close the gap in international tax rules that allow companies to artificially shift profits across borders.
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Close enough to the nine hours or so that Razer advertises, and I'm sure I can close the gap — if I lowered the max screen and keyboard brightness.
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The article was the latest to increase awareness of the difficulties working mothers across industries face as they seek to close the gap in compensation with male counterparts.
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Quartet Health, a company that wants to close the gap between physical and mental healthcare, has raised a $40 million Series B led by GV (formerly Google Ventures).
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Alright, Chrome OS still isn't as full-featured as macOS or Windows 10, but Google's made some real strides over the last few years that close the gap.
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Italy, long one of Europe's most sluggish economies, will struggle to close the gap with its peers even if recent reforms are fully implemented, the IMF report said.
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MakerBot also introduced its new MakerBot Print software, which supports 20 CAD formats out of the box to help close the gap between design creation and print output.
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The Magic were unable to close the gap after connecting on just 2 of 9 attempts from long range and 19 of 43 (44.2 percent) from the floor.
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However, there are growing indications that China, with its own army of tech heavy hitters such as Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu, is moving rapidly to close the gap.
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In order to close the gap, the service is offering massive enlistment bonuses topping out at $40,000 for new recruits and up to $72,000 for soldiers who reclassify.
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Booth drained a deep trey with 1.1 seconds remaining to close the gap to three, and Villanova had a chance to tie the game after a Quakers turnover.
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"With the $625 million in savings, we could close the gap projected by the analysis, allowing us to have a balanced budget [by fiscal year 2019]," said Sánchez.
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Without sacrificing cap flexibility or swapping core pieces on their roster, there's simply no way for the Spurs to upgrade personnel and close the gap on Golden State.
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Bill Walker and the state legislature agreed for the first time to use earnings from the Alaska Permanent Fund — the state's oil wealth — to partially close the gap.
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Limp declined to give any hints on how Amazon plans to close the gap between the ordering capabilities available today and the long-term shopping goals of tomorrow.
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Fresh investment, and fresh ideas, may follow in his wake, helping to close the gap with England's Premier League, to recapture a little of Serie A's golden age.
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In an election that will be defined by voter enthusiasm, Republicans have resorted to race-baiting immigration messages in the final months to close the gap with Democrats.
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China, in short, has done substantially more to close the gap with the global power that it is chasing — the United States — than seemed likely a decade ago.
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In contrast, Republicans have often struggled in their efforts to recruit more women, though the party and outside groups like Maggie's List are trying to close the gap.
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"Our hope is that over time we will begin to perform and close the gap against the peers," said finance chief James von Moltke on a conference call.
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The Bucks built a 10-point lead in the first quarter, but Chicago scored the final six points of the session to close the gap to 29-26.
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To close the gap between housing demand and supply, California would need to build 3.5 million housing units by 2025, according to a 2016 McKinsey Global Institute study.
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And if they do get a diagnosis, they are often told that core work — for instance, tons of crunches — will tone the tummy and thus, close the gap.
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And since Hillary Clinton has been trailing in most recent polls of the Granite State, she's hoping a strong debate performance will help her close the gap with Sanders.
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A team of researchers have an idea for another measurement that could help close the gap between these numbers—by measuring how gravity affects the light from distant supernovae.
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The stock market's rally on Tuesday was "justified" by five distinct factors, CNBC's Jim Cramer argued after the major averages attempted to close the gap on their October losses.
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PSA, which makes Peugeot and Citroen cars, is now poised to supersede French rivals Renault to become Europe's second-ranked automaker by sales and close the gap on Volkswagen.
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The biggest "integrated" oil companies — those with both exploration and refining operations — have begun to close the gap between spending and income by cutting costs and laying off workers.
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The narrowest the Bulls would close the gap was when eight straight points to start the fourth quarter sliced the Hornets lead to 9.03-73 with 10:16 remaining.
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To close the gap with cheaper national retailers, the country's biggest food brands are stepping up funding of in-store promotions with their grocery partners, according to Basket data.
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Those moves aren't sufficient to close the gap for a retirement system that has only 76 percent of the assets needed to ensure current retirement benefits to its members.
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Real names have helped close the gap between online and offline space, clearing space for new kinds of personal branding and online commerce that would have been impossible before.
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AI could also enable self-improving regulations that close the gap between the pace of regulatory response and the pace of technological change, in real-time cost-benefit evaluations.
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While these new findings can give millennials hope, it's clear that more work is yet to be done to close the gap for women over the age of 30.
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Tightening the balance between imports and exports has been a major goal of the Trump administration, which last year started levying tariffs in an effort to close the gap.
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There, the consensus was that social media technology — and its potential for abuse — had far outpaced Washington, and that Congress may have to step in to close the gap.
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Freddy Galvis and Rowdy Tellez homered for the Blue Jays, who overcame a 6-0 deficit and scored four runs in the seventh to close the gap to one.
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That same study found that EVs make up for the emissions disparity once they hit the road, but corporate minds—and eco-watchdogs—are eager to close the gap.
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It's one way to close the gap between the care that the rich are able to afford, and the care that those with lower incomes have to settle for.
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Goodbye, learning curve In the past, trying to close the gap between myself and a Titan gave the craft enough time to spot me, aim its guns, and unload.
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"Gross margin is the lifeblood of the business and we recognize that we must close the gap we have here versus our beauty peers," he said in a statement.
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"I just wanted to show what I was capable of ... For me, doping was the way to close the gap (on others) so that I could compete," Hauke added.
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The peace deal, Mr. Pardo said, aims to close the gap between a modern, urban and liberal Colombia and the other Colombia, which still feels neglected and poorly represented.
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The Utes could not close the gap back to single digits again until Kuzma hit a pair of free throws to make it 65-57 with 113:37 remaining.
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On the other hand, after Tuesday almost half the pledged delegates will have been chosen, and to close the gap Sanders would have to win big in what remains.
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The move is meant to close the gap between the official exchange rate of 1.4 dinars to the dollar and the parallel rate of between 6 and 7 dinars.
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Burger King has started to close the gap with its No. 1 competitor, McDonald's, in per-restaurant sales, and in doing so nearly doubled franchisees' profits, according to Schwartz.
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It's really hard to do, because you're trying to close the gap between the idea and the actualization of that idea, and it gets more complicated with different mediums.
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The road for the required fix is long and there has not been the political will or leverage from any side to close the gap once and for all.
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Bundled with the continued maturation of Andujar and his fellow rookie Gleyber Torres, the Yankees felt they could close the gap on Boston without spending much on new additions.
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That's largely why the US had a $27 billion goods trade deficit with South Korea in 2016, and Trump decided to renegotiate the trade deal to close the gap.
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As for the intensifying rivalry between Alibaba and JD.com — the two largest e-commerce players in China — Liu said he was confident his company would soon close the gap.
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"As we head into 2020, we believe this next phase of cloud is Microsoft&aposs to go after and further close the gap with AWS," Ives told Business Insider.
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Both actors are quite watchable, and presumably as the series goes along it will close the gap between Mr. Flynn's cocksure, somewhat impudent Einstein and Mr. Rush's scholarly one.
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Alternatively, Beijing could choose to close the gap across the strait by fostering democratic values and allowing the emergence of civil society, but this seems highly unlikely at present.
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The fact that type 2 diabetes can result from obesity paints a world where cancer could close the gap on heart disease, the No. 1 cause of death globally.
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Even as state and local partners emphasize infrastructure, we need to find responsible and meaningful ways to attract and leverage additional private investment to help further close the gap.
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But this time we were able to close the gap between the hospital and the courts by weaving a net of support that connected them, and connected our patient.
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Vonn missed roughly six weeks of races and multiple opportunities to close the gap on Stenmark, including three races at Lake Louise, Alberta, where Vonn had won 18 times.
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Freddy Galvis and Rowdy Tellez homered for the Blue Jays, who overcame a 113-0 deficit and scored four runs in the seventh to close the gap to one.
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With only 19 days to go before the first round of the election, the debate gives challengers like Fillon an opportunity to close the gap on Macron and Le Pen.
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Meade&aposs camp maintains optimism, touting internal polls that contend he&aposs in second place and saying he can close the gap with plenty of voters who are still undecided.
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Only Michael Schumacher (seven victories) has won the Canadian Grand Prix more times and Hamilton intends to close the gap further in Montreal as the race marks its 50th anniversary.
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Pay special attention to that last one: Google finds itself behind Amazon in terms of mindshare for home speakers that "do things," so it needs to close the gap there.
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But investors will focus on the post-meeting news conference to gauge if the central bank plans any steps to close the gap between the official and parallel exchange rates.
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AppleApple is going to try and close the gap between its mapping application, Apple Maps, and Google Maps by deploying a fleet of drones to scan streets, according to Bloomberg.
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"I see it as absolutely necessary if we really want to close the gap between the tour de force mechanical capabilities of today's robots and their rather limited intellectual capacities."
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The big picture: While the NWSL still boasts the majority of the world's top players (including reigning world player of the year Marta), Europe is beginning to close the gap.
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The Friars had four possessions to further close the gap, but managed only one point, a free throw by Ashton-Langford, to make it 60-50 with 3:12 left.
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For instance, AT&T in its most recent quarter lost a record number of traditional TV subscribers, and while DirecTV Now "helped" offset those losses, it couldn't close the gap.
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Making it easier to write voice apps combined with a more open Siri could help close the gap, even though both Google and Amazon continue to invest heavily in voice.
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The devaluation helped close the gap between the official exchange rate and the black market level, which had depreciated to unprecedented levels near 10 to the dollar in recent weeks.
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"The numbers don't add up," Rubio said, saying even after getting rid of fraud and abuse, there would still be hundreds of billions of dollars needed to close the gap.
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The stakes were massive from the outset, with Liverpool topping the Premier League table and Man City with a chance to close the gap to a 4-point striking distance.
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"For low- and middle-income countries to reach international spending targets and close the gap, domestic and international health funding will need to increase beyond historical growth rates," Dieleman said.
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The race for the sixth seed in the Western Conference heats up Wednesday night in Memphis as the Grizzlies try to close the gap on the visiting Oklahoma City Thunder.
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That decision to end production early handcuffed Air Force recapitalization efforts and weakened capacity at the very time adversaries were drawing up plans to close the gap with Western forces.
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Facing an identical situation Tuesday against the New York Rangers, the Devils showed a killer instinct to snap their skid and close the gap between them and a postseason berth.
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Democrats could close the gap on the day of the election, but it seems unlikely at this time that Democrats will greatly outperform the voter registration baseline of the district.
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She promised to "close the gap" to help all students learn computer science, as well as give every child access to broadband to help foster learning and make homework easier.
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"The biggest challenge is to close the gap between research and engineers, because we consider ourselves an AI company but we are doing a different type of AI," Zhao said.
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He shared the secrets to his success in building Bellator with Business Insider two years ago, explaining how he planned to close the gap between his brand and the UFC.
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It's too early to tell if Biden can close the gap with LGBTQ voters, who tend to skew more progressive, as the race for the Democratic presidential nomination wears on.
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When Christoph Spycher was appointed sporting director at the Swiss club Young Boys in 2016, he realized there was only one way to try to close the gap on Basel.
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"We recognize that in order to close the gap entirely, we still need a much wider cultural change," Penny Mordaunt, the minister for women and equalities, said in a statement.
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Finally, in January, the grand finale: a $19903 million grant, announced by Mr. Cuomo during his State of the State address to close the gap in funding for the project.
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Trans people are surely not the only ones who wonder how to close the gap between the people they feel they have to pretend to be and their authentic selves.
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"This is really going to provide a tremendous opportunity for frontline caregivers, those having to diagnose a lot of infections, to close the gap with our testing," Frels told Bloomberg.
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The imperative is to close the gap that leaves the remaining 10 percent so vulnerable, without disrupting coverage and care for the nearly 300 million Americans who already are covered.
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From a legislative standpoint, Bovino said the U.S. government needs to focus on ways to close the gap between itself and other countries when it comes to supporting female workers.
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The government has said it will need a number of budgets to close the gap but the Teachers' Union of Ireland (TUI) said on Friday that progress was too slow.
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With its new business, the biggest U.S. bank hopes to close the gap by helping to turn development finance into a traded asset class, originating assets for distribution to investors.
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Those moves are not sufficient to close the gap for a retirement system that has only 76 percent of the assets needed to ensure current retirement benefits to its members.
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Sanders's allies hope that a dominating win in the Granite State will help close the gap with Clinton in future primaries where the front-runner still holds a major lead.
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Critics pointed to the final declaration&aposs weak language, which cited only an "urgent need" to close the gap between the world&aposs current path and the Paris agreement goals.
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Springs canned a 3-pointer, then fed freshman guard Lunden McDay (10 points) and Dartis for 3-pointers to close the gap to 45-38 with 12 minutes to play.
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The majority of undersupply was in London's outer suburbs and while developers have allotted forthcoming stock over the medium term, that still won't be sufficient to close the gap, it continued.
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The Commission said member states are currently working on national energy and climate plans which should close the gap between national planned measures and what is needed at the EU level.
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Putnam, whom the latest poll shows leads DeSantis, by 32 percent to 17 percent, hopes the surge his opponent gets from the Trump endorsement won't be enough to close the gap.
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The Arizona Diamondbacks are hoping the return of star center fielder A.J. Pollock can help them close the gap on the first-place Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League West.
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Sanders's supporters have taken to pointing out that since only about half of the pledged delegates have been decided, there's still enough states remaining for Sanders to still close the gap.
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It would mean a direct federal investment of some $315 billion over 10 years, her campaign said, as well as incentives to push states to close the gap on their own.
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And even if he can't close the gap, Clinton could end up with a larger popular vote lead than Obama's four-point 2012 margin, but fewer electoral votes than Obama's 332.
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Levin sees ways to close the gap by bringing some basic best practices to a company that had only had two previous owners, both affiliated with the founder Tom Forcade's family.
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Louisville held a 34-29 halftime advantage, though a 9-0 run for the Wolfpack helped close the gap before Snider's 3-pointer accounted for the last points of the half.
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While Marvel couldn't close the gap, they're rolling out their latest film since the April release of Avengers: Endgame with Spider-Man: Far from Home, the sequel to Spider-Man: Homecoming.
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A candidate who finishes a close second on an indeterminate first ballot, only to close the gap and win an outright majority on the second ballot, "looks like" a legitimate winner.
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But Clinton and her aides are aggressively trying to close the gap in the Granite State, hoping that a slim win for Sanders can be spun as an upset for Clinton.
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Advertising at MailOnline, whose 2503 million average daily users make it among the most popular in the English language, grew 23 percent, but that was not enough to close the gap.
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Los Angeles entered the day one game behind the Arizona Diamondbacks in the National League West and hopes its new arrivals will help close the gap in the season's final month.
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Last year, Americans spent sixteen billion dollars on plastic surgery, most of it on fountain-of-youth treatments for wrinkles, trying to close the gap between interior vitality and exterior decay.
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Her overnight popularity has public health experts and swimming advocates hopeful that she may have the star power to close the gap and inspire more minority children to learn to swim.
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Another Summit sponsor, Pfizer, uses its position as a leader in pharmaceutical development to deliver on Goal 3: Good Health & Well-Being to close the gap in access to quality healthcare.
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Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka told the Associated Press that "many, many" women have been left behind in the push toward gender equity and that technology should be emphasized to close the gap.
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Robson is referring to Fiedler's essay "Cross the Border—Close the Gap," which was delivered as a speech in 1968, and which many consider to be the début of the term.
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House Republicans are trying to close the gap between the Senate's $1.1 billion bipartisan funding bill for the nation's Zika virus response and its own package of about $622 million. Rep.
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The answer to that fundamental question helps determine how large fiscal deficits should be, and how best to find the money to close the gap between tax revenues and government expenditures.
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This differential suggested that Pressley could close the gap as voters came to know her better when they focused more on the candidates during the last two weeks of the primary.
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In order to close the gap between U.S. athletes and the rest of the world, as well as get the younger generation Olympic-ready, the USMF started a Youth Development League.
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His ability to close the gap on Clinton in Iowa and rout her in New Hampshire, nearly all-white states, raised expectations that he could ride to another upset in Nevada.
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TIme's ability to close the gap between print and digital revenues makes it an attractive prospect for Meredith, which has been doubling down on efforts to expand its digital revenue stream.
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"I think when you look at what we have developed for example for cars, these guys are far behind and it will take some time to close the gap," he added.
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Still, the Houston Astros are the dominant team in the A.L. West, and Trout could have used his clout to publicly demand that the organization do more to close the gap.
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Falling volume has put banks' budget targets under pressure and lenders are not expected to be able to close the gap in what is already being viewed as a difficult year.
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Could Whiterose, who yearns to close the gap between who she is and who she has to be in public, be trying to unlock dimensions in which that might be possible?
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The question for public health researchers and policymakers now is how to close the gap and ensure equity in access to – and utilization of - this person-centered end-of-life care.
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The Blazers answered with a 211-22 run — the last points provided on a 249-foot bomb from Lillard — to close the gap to 235-203 with 220:214 to go.
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But after Federer defeated John Isner to close the gap, Germany's Zverev produced a flurry of superb backhands to beat the big-serving Raonic in the final rubber of the weekend.
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It is also backing Goop to help it expand into online commerce, an expansion move that is helping it close the gap with rivals such as far larger lifestyle site MarthaStewart.com.
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Many security specialists believe any previously undiscovered flaw should be flagged for the company, so it can close the gap and block nefarious hackers and spies from using that entry point.
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The Indians are on the board, as World Series veteran Mike Napoli came through with a one-out single that drove in Jason Kipnis to close the gap to 7-1.
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But the Bulldogs responded with a 218-29 run by going 21 of 217 from the free-throw line to close the gap to 220-218 at the 73:27 mark.
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Now we are in a place, we are doing the exact opposite — undoing the success of these initiatives that have worked to close the gap between the Muslim and Western world.
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The poor figures come despite finance companies publicizing a raft of initiatives to close the gap, from hiring more women in senior roles to mandating mixed gender shortlists and promoting flexible working.
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"This further highlights their appetite for a deal and perhaps the urgency with which JT knows it needs to act to address structural pressures and close the gap on peers," Jefferies said.
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He recognizes that he has to close the gap here in terms of income spread and helping middle-class families and lower-middle-class families on the campaign that was his pledge.
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Other reports have pegged the monitor as having a 31.6-inch 6K screen and using mini-LED backlighting or something similar to improve the display's contrast and close the gap with OLED.
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This product will help close the gap between the expectations and needs of employers, allowing them to more easily identify and recruit the data science talent they need to ship innovative products.
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Trump has a cash problem Hillary Clinton's big fund-raising edge has a lot of Republicans worried -- and they say the clock is ticking as Donald Trump labors to close the gap.
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Bridge the gap as an "explainer" Explainers — great communicators who understand highly technical systems — are needed to close the gap between AI systems and the nontechnical humans who need their robotic insight.
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In reaction to what they saw as the slick consumerism of American pop art and the impersonal nature of minimalism, Arte Povera artists sought to close the gap between art and life.
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Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 10 of his career-high 41 in the fourth quarter and Milwaukee got within five with 59 seconds to play but couldn't find a way to close the gap.
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After quitting, she wrote that Kennedy "was making close to double my salary for the past several years," and that the network did nothing to close the gap when she confronted them.
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"Knowing the facts about the gender pay gap is critical to helping close the gap," Glassdoor senior vice president and head of product and UX/design Annie Pearl said in a statement.
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Moreover, given Clinton's slim lead among pledged delegates and her overwhelming lead among the superdelegates, Sanders would need to win by much larger margins to close the gap, let alone defeat Clinton.
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"That will be the first example we've seen where, after years of trying to close the gap, they might actually be able to accomplish it much more quickly [with legislation]," she explains.
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They don't have much time to close the gap, as debates begin in May and the primary is on June 6, though Quinnipiac did find that 57 percent of voters remain undecided.
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Bloomberg's money "was spent in a very strategic way" that made it hard for Republicans to close the gap, said Courtney Alexander of the Congressional Leadership Fund, aligned with House Republican leaders.
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The Kings didn't go away quietly, however, with Hield connecting from 211.4 feet before Bogdan Bogdanovic bombed in a 3-pointer to close the gap to one with 1:12 to play.
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While sufficient U.S. volumes could be produced to close the gap, a variety of bottlenecks have emerged including lack of investor enthusiasm, limited pipeline capacity and shortages in materials and qualified labor.
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Instead, we must each look at our individual actions and decipher which of our own decisions may reflect a societal bias, so we can close the gap one hire at a time.
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"Democrats are outperforming their historic norms in these past five special elections," a Brooks ally noted, citing House special elections that saw Democrats close the gap on Republicans in traditionally GOP seats.
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Clarkson made one of two foul shots to close the gap to two with 15 seconds remaining, but Luwawu-Cabarrot hit a pair for a four-point advantage with 12.2 seconds left.
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Arjuna called for an October deadline for Amazon to report the difference between males' and females' pay and its plans to close the gap, according to a filing on the SEC's website.
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And he goes into tomorrow's primaries (in Arizona and Utah) as an antagonist to Ted Cruz, whose quest to close the gap between him and Trump is complicated by Kasich's continued presence.
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Though Mr. Trump may hope to fish in this pool to close the gap and reach a majority before the first ballot, many of Mr. Rubio's free agents could prefer Mr. Kasich.
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The Photos app is getting new searching and sharing capabilities, some of which help close the gap with Google Photos in terms of being able to search for different types of images.
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Now, it sounds like the follow-up to that device may bring some important upgrades that could further close the gap between Samsung&aposs smaller, budget-friendly phone and its next flagship.
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The administration has said that it wants to close the gap between an initial asylum screening that most people pass and a final decision on asylum that most people do not win.
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In response, the relief agency said on Wednesday that it would begin a fund-raising campaign to try to close the gap before it is forced to cut vital safety-net services.
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To President Trump, increased sales of oil and gas are a way to rebalance trade and close the gap between what the United States buys from foreign countries and what it sells.
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While experts say mobile payments in the U.S. will eventually close the gap, they see legacy financial systems, a lack of a need for other options, and rewards cards as major headwinds.
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Sanders did much better with late voters in 2016, helping him close the gap with Hillary Clinton after it looked like she'd won California's primary by a comfortable margin on election night.
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To close the gap between the $236 trillion in cuts and the maximum price tag of $1.5 trillion, the package sought to raise new revenue by eliminating deductions and introducing new taxes.
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After Castillo was pulled following 1 2/3 scoreless innings, having allowed one hit and one walk, the Astros threatened to close the gap in the fourth against Ryan Yarbrough (20183-0).
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Both sides, after all, rely on these tools, and there is an argument to be made that Democrats need them in order to close the gap with Mr. Trump's sophisticated digital operation.
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The city will close the gap with reserves and raise property taxes by 2 percent annually for the next 10 years, but the shortfall served as a warning to the City Council.
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To close the gap, Rubio could find another trillion dollars by eliminating all education spending — Pell grants, the Department of Education, K-12 funds, school nutrition programs, Head Start, all of it.
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My thought bubble: Both companies are trying to gain ground on Tesla, as well as some legacy automakers in the EV space, so collaboration makes sense as they try and close the gap.
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She also took the opportunity, during a standout moment, to close the gap with Sanders on his signature issue, "Medicare for All," by clearly stating her willingness to eliminate the private insurance industry.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Bristol-Myers Squibb has pulled ahead in the race to dominate the hot new cancer immunotherapy market but Merck & Co, Roche and AstraZeneca still have important opportunities to close the gap.
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In an attempt to close the gap between official and black market rates, the central bank devalued to 8.85 per dollar from 7.7301 in March, while announcing a more flexible exchange rate policy.
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"Talent isn't static," Silver said in a televised halftime interview during Game 3 of the Finals, arguing that the rest of the NBA is already working to close the gap with the Warriors.
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"The level of skill is different in the Ukrainian league and we have to continue to work very hard to close the gap on the other countries," said Fomenko, who looked emotionally drained.
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The Clippers beat out the Lakers in a trade with the New York Knicks for Marcus Morris Sr., who may help them close the gap over the stretch run of the regular season.
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But inflationary pressure resurged when the central bank devalued the pound in March by about 13 percent in order to close the gap between official and black-market rates for the U.S. dollar.
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To close the gap this year, and to make a play for the state's 20 electoral votes, Trump has focused on Rust Belt towns in Western Pennsylvania, where he thrived in the primary.
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If the company boosts customer acquisition and lowers fulfillment costs — which could come from more internet services revenue and platform investment with IPO capital — it could close the gap between revenues and losses.
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"Looking forward at the plans for the next 10 to 15 years, it doesn't seem that the scope of investment will manage to close the gap," said Bank of Israel economist Shay Tsur.
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The Chicago Bulls can't afford to lose to teams below them in the standings as they try to close the gap between themselves and the eighth-place Miami Heat in the Eastern Conference.
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While that move wouldn't necessarily lead to higher participation rates in pension plans and financial investments, by sheer virtue of increased revenue, it would help the lowest-earning Latino families close the gap.
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"Although the Tory (Conservative) lead is shrinking, the slow rate of change means that it will be mid-August before Labour close the gap," said Adam Drummond, head of political polling at Opinium.
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We urge President-elect Trump and Congress to partner together on a comprehensive infrastructure package that will close the gap on the significant unmet infrastructure needs in and around our airports and seaports.
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"I did close the gap on that lead a little bit too, so that's a positive, and I'm pretty sure we're going to have some tough conditions tomorrow," said the Ohio-based Australian.
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She has failed to close the gap in any of the swing states that she lost, though Mr. Trump's lead in Michigan has dwindled to 11,612 votes, a bad night in Tiger Stadium.
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Recent polls have shown O'Rourke appearing to close the gap with Cruz for his Senate seat in the deep-red state, which has not elected a Democrat to the Senate in 21625 years.
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Improving the quality of education by working with the private sector to develop a curriculum focused on the skills needed for private sector jobs can also help close the gap in worker talent.
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ZURICH (Reuters) - Schindler has bought a stake in a Chinese lift maker as the Swiss company tries to close the gap on rivals Kone and Otis in the world's biggest market for elevators.
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After Crawford's homer triggered a three-run second inning that opened the scoring, Bader countered with his two-run blast in the top of the third to close the gap to 3-2.
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Inequality between the rich and the poor also remained vast, despite Mr. Masire's efforts to close the gap by providing access to education, giving Botswana one of the highest literacy rates in Africa.
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Operators with the best network coverage might be reluctant to share networks or sell towers if this allowed smaller operators to quickly close the gap in terms of LTE coverage and network quality.
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Gary Harris was fouled by Simmons with two seconds left on the shot clock, and he sank two at the foul line to close the gap to 95-90 with 1:52 remaining.
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If Democrats could close the gap between the two groups — if they could bring more nonvoters or new voters into the process — they would have a better shot at beating Trump in 2020.
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If Democrats could close the gap between the two groups — if they could bring more nonvoters or new voters into the process — they would have a better shot at beating Trump in 2020.
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The key over the next week will be to close the gap between the sense of panic in the progressive grassroots and that felt by members of Congress on Capitol Hill, Chamberlain said.
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Three-year-old Abel Tasman chased the Dallas Stewart-trained Forever Unbridled as the finish approached but could not close the gap in what amounted to a two-horse race at the oceanside racetrack.
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Nigeria's naira is seen steady in the coming days after the currency responded to central bank's measure to close the gap between official and parallel market rates led to sharp appreciation of the naira.
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It intends to close the gap with Samsung, Vizio, and LG by producing 4K sets with high-end specs for decent prices, as well as lower-cost sets with sweeteners like Roku built in.
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An energized Kerber struck back to break in the next game and close the gap but the comeback was short-lived as Cibulkova broke again and comfortably held for the rest of the match.
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China trails the United States in terms of nuclear attack submarines, the ability to conduct aerial refueling and a sufficient amphibious capacity, and it is unlikely to close the gap in the immediate future.
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Earlier, Cameron had met with European leaders, including EU President Donald Tusk, Italy's Matteo Renzi and Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo, trying to close the gap on issues including financial governance and welfare benefits.
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In an attempt to close the gap between official and black market rates, the central bank devalued to 8.85 pounds a dollar from 7.7301 in March, while announcing a more flexible exchange rate policy.
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday it would be difficult to close the gap in positions over a peace treaty and territorial dispute with Japan, two weeks before President Vladimir Putin visits.
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Chris Covert, the South Carolina director for the Sanders campaign, told me they are trying to close the gap with Clinton by establishing deep relationships that will last long beyond any particular election cycle.
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"Economies are more successful when we close the gap between the rich and the poor," he explained, advocating for a world in which strong unions are allowed to flourish and fight for workers' benefits.
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Successive governments have failed to close the gap between Italy's industrialized north, and the far less developed south — where unemployment is about 20 percent, almost double the rate in the rest of the country.
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It's critical that manufacturers work with local colleges and workforce training agencies to close the gap between when a company needs certain competencies and when training programs are graduating workers who have those competencies.
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IPG's operating profile has shown marked improvement since FY 2012 (EBITDA margins have improved more than 200 bps), and the company continues to make progress to close the gap relative to its peer group.
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Northern Illinois' Rod Henry-Hayes drilled a 123-pointer to extend the lead to 26-15 before the Cyclones answered with a 16-8 run to close the gap to 34-31 at halftime.
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Renault finished fourth in Formula One last year and are aiming to close the gap on Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull before targeting podiums, wins and a championship challenge under a five-year plan.
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He said it would be very hard for the Vermont senator to close the gap, which only grows when superdelegates — lawmakers and other Democratic officeholders who pledge their support to a candidate — are included.
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Wealthier EU states including Italy - now the main gateway to Europe for African migrants and refugees - have threatened to reduce generous development funds earmarked to help the easterners close the gap in living standards.
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Eventually, Team Sky, the employer of the Tour favorite Chris Froome of Britain, and Movistar, which has Nairo Quintana, a Colombian who is widely seen as Froome's closest challenger, moved to close the gap.
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Murray, at 29, is unlikely to catch them, but he can certainly close the gap, and it will be intriguing to see what he can achieve going forward with Lendl back in his corner.
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The missteps by Samsung, the world's top seller of smartphones, have given a rare opportunity to competitors like Apple to close the gap with the South Korean giant as the holiday shopping season approaches.
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Simply put, without having the individual mandate as a key requirement of the ACA, fewer may buy policies, and thus, insurance companies will have no choice but to increase rates to close the gap.
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Van Gaal was clearly disappointed at his side's missed opportunity to close the gap to the Champions League places, but after Manchester City's defeat later in the day they remain firmly in the fight.
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And, even though boxers' have got the book on Muangthai, and his twin elbows of impending bedtime, more often than not, he manages to close the gap on ring foes and take them out.
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Throughout the last two years of Golden State's five-year run of title contention, teams from the next tier made numerous moves to try to close the gap rather than wait the Warriors out.
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While most analysts and regional envoys believe China remains keen to avoid an actual conflict with the significantly more powerful U.S. navy in the South China Sea, it is working to close the gap.
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According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the governor-elect thinks taxes on recreational pot, expanded casino gambling, and possibly legalized sports betting could provide much of the revenue needed to close the gap.
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But to close the gap in the next few elections, Democrats may need not only greater turnout but also slightly improved vote shares among their best groups: minorities and especially college-educated white voters.
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Bernie Sanders came into South Carolina with more momentum than any other candidate, so how much he is able to close the gap with Biden will be key to how his performance is viewed.
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The Conservatives have a healthy lead in national polls, but that disguises considerable uncertainty in dozens of hotly contested seats, making any missteps by Mr. Johnson significant as Labour tries to close the gap.
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Interviews with nearly a dozen Democratic insiders in New Hampshire show Warren is trying to close the gap by giving personal attention to lesser-known, yet still influential local leaders to secure their support.
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But Klobuchar remains well behind the top tier in the Democratic primary and it was clear on Thursday night that she viewed the debate as one of her last opportunities to close the gap.
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"Our goal is to close the gap on the science as quickly as possible," he said, adding that the agency is also looking into technology to clean or reduce PFAS chemicals from drinking water.
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To try to close the gap, Twitter is finally going to do something YouTube has done for a while: Share ad revenue with its top video creators — and it's offering a more generous split.
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Gillibrand's platform includes policies that would work to close the gap between people of color and white Americans — like legalizing marijuana, ending cash bail and reducing maternal mortality rates, which disproportionately affect African-American mothers.
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The ability to not only close the gap in care but improve health, as we then also optimize the outcomes for chronic or even further optimize the outcomes for -- especially medication, that's the power here.
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As they invest billions of dollars to close the gap with Amazon, the overwhelming majority of traditional retailers still hasn't figured out how to profitably fill orders that incorporate both the web and the store.
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American women typically under-consumer fiber by 8.9 grams per day, which means the fiber found in our trash would provide enough to close the gap in daily intake requirements for 206.6 million adult women.
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And the Viv team didn't contribute to the current version of Bixby either, so it's safe to say that the injection of all this new expertise will help Bixby close the gap a lot sooner.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - China's table tennis squad remains the team to beat at the Olympics but other countries are working hard to close the gap, three of the sport's top players said on Wednesday.
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The UNCCC has found that city governments around the world are doing the most to close the gap between the stated goals in the Paris agreement and the limited national policies each country is undertaking.
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The campaign wants to close the gap between faith-based and civil wedding ceremonies by making it easy, virtually automatic and indeed compulsory for religious nuptials to be registered in the eyes of the state.
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The ability to reach those speeds was the biggest single factor setting the hyperloop apart from conventional rail travel — and it's still unclear whether the hyperloops we have will be able to close the gap.
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Splitting the group and relocating part of it to Europe should help close the gap between the value of the stakes in businesses Naspers owns, such as Tencent, and its market capitalisation, which is lower.
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In order to close the gap, the state is considering borrowing $1 billion, to be repaid with money U.S. states still receive every year from their 1998 legal settlement with tobacco companies for health expenses.
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Upside to BAC's VR would likely be predicated on continued earnings performance where BAC's returns consistently match or exceed the company's own targets and also close the gap to peer averages over an extended period.
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However, it continues to close the gap among other newly fast-growing economies of Latin American such as Peru (13%) and Colombia (55.1%), but is still far behind Brazil (77.2%), Chile (83.9%), and Panama (28%).
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Rede CEO Marcos Magalhães told Reuters Itaú decided to advance payments to merchants in as little as two days, compared with the usual 30-day period, in order to close the gap with international practices.
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Despite an injury prone right hand, Conteh was a brilliant tactician in the ring, able to close the gap with a blurring jab and who always got off the floor to win, lose or draw.
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A little Dutch magic may have helped in the damp conditions, but in the dry it was inevitable that the superiority of the Mercedes would allow Rosberg to close the gap to the Red Bull.
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A per capita cap — which would limit funding for each person in the program — would reduce federal spending by 24 percent over five years, requiring the state to spend $6.2 billion to close the gap.
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The political revolution was supposed to close the gap between these realities: If Sanders could turn out enough new voters, he could sweep away the Democratic establishment and build his own party in its place.
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Soleil Ho wrote about the food that immigrants cook for themselves to "close the gap between homes" — hard as it is to define — and I think that's exactly what that sandwich was doing for me.
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However, a 18-6 surge by the Lakers, which included a four-point play by Troy Daniels to cap the first-half scoring, allowed them to close the gap to 65-58 at the break.
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But the conference, in its concluding draft, endorsed only a modest declaration on the "urgent need" to close the gap between existing emissions pledges and the temperature goals of the landmark 2015 Paris climate agreement.
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The regulations are essentially the same, allowing rivals a chance to close the gap further, and Red Bull and runners-up Ferrari both have a more settled driver line-up after making changes in 2019.
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Nadal, the last of the Big Three still standing at this Open, will have to content himself with chasing a 19th major singles title, which would close the gap with Federer's record to just one.
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In addition to the nuclear review, Pentagon officials have been touting budget proposals that would put more money toward hypersonics and missile defense that they say will help close the gap with Russia and China.
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Community upheaval followed these assaults against the Maori, and more than 100 years later, they still lag on many social measures like income and life expectancy, though the government has worked to close the gap.
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In order to increase the revenue flow to the federal treasury, which will close the gap between revenues and spending that is represented as the deficit and debt, we need to grow the economy faster.
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While Mr. Morales and his Movement for Socialism party did not concede defeat on Tuesday, it was unlikely that he would be able to close the gap as rural and absentee ballots continued to be tallied.
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Republicans are hoping to pick up a small number of Democratic votes to close the gap, with the expected Democratic votes coming from the 10 red state incumbent Democratic senators up for re-election in November.
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Labuto said Banco do Brasil should close the gap with its private peers in up to two years in terms of return on equity - in which the state-controlled lender still lags behind its biggest competitors.
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And on Wednesday, the company announced an agreement with struggling manufacturer HTC that will import a team of engineers over to Google, to help close the gap between Mountain View's hardware ambitions and its present reality.
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In an attempt to close the gap between official and black market rates it also devalued the pound in March to 8.78 per dollar, an option its governor on Wednesday left the door open to repeating.
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Renault finished fourth overall last season and started the year in upbeat mood, convinced they had made a big step on the engine side and had the resources to close the gap on the top three.
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The Nuggets opened the third quarter with a 13-4 run to close the gap to one point and later surged ahead 73-36.33 on a second-chance basket by Harris at the 4:42 mark.
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The Giants got the potential tying run into scoring position in the bottom of the eighth after Ramiro Pena singled in Brandon Crawford, who had a five-RBI night, to close the gap to 10-212.
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Despite winning the Maine caucuses the same day and in Kansas and Nebraska the day before, the senator is badly lagging Hillary Clinton in the delegate count and, moreover, looks ill-equipped to close the gap.
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Both candidates campaigned to help UEFA's middle-sized and smaller members and said it was necessary to close the gap between big and small clubs, although Van Praag was more outspoken in Wednesday's pre-vote speeches.
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But it does indicate that Sony is working to close the gap between the growing affordability of 4K and HDR technology and the lack of compatible shows and movies consumers can actually watch on those TVs.
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As Vox's Tara Golshan, Li Zhou, and P.R. Lockhart explained, Abrams is hoping that as votes are counted, she can close the gap enough between her and Kemp to trigger a recount or perhaps a runoff.
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ESA general counsel Stanley Pierre-Louis, though, talked about using tools like the Microsoft HoloLens to create education programs for fields like nursing and construction, or to close the gap between remote communities and urban hubs.
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The talk earlier in the season when Paul Millsap was reportedly on the trade market for a brief moment was that the Raptors needed to make a move in order to close the gap with Cleveland.
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The U.S. trade deficit with its global partners contracted to $52.5 billion in September as the White House continued its efforts to close the gap in goods and services, according to a Commerce Department report Tuesday.
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Installing new, faster chargers would spur the overall market, and also help the traditional car manufacturers close the gap with Tesla, the Silicon Valley-based e-car leader, which maintains its own network of charging stations.
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Plenty of brands, rattled by the instability of luxury markets, are now trying to close the gap between runway and retail, offering goods ever faster to consumers, hoping to whip them into a frenzy of acquisition.
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"Encouraging more women to get involved in the higher-paying STEM industries is one thing we can do to help close the gap," says Sophie McAulay, Content Marketing and Growth Strategist for AND CO from Fiverr.
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However, Honda has been able to close the gap by selling Civics and Accords in volume, for decades (automakers don't disclose profit margins on individual vehicles, but mass-market sedans typically bring in less than 10%).
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This is only a short list, of course—plenty of ink has been spilled about the US educational system's prismatic range of challenges, and there is much disagreement over the best way to close the gap.
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We certainly don't think home sharing is a long-term policy solution for economic inequality, but we do believe it can be an important option for people to help pay the bills and close the gap.
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Ready to go Goldstein believes that hospitals can close the gap by changing how they run -- including more staffing and better ways of alerting doctors and nurses if their patients take a turn for the worst.
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Rhode Island trailed by 203 with 3:45 remaining in the first half before Russell took over, scoring 18 of the Rams' next 210 points including all three of his 248.5-pointers to close the gap.
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But the conference was expected to endorse only a modest declaration on the "urgent need" to close the gap between existing emissions pledges and the temperature goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement to tackle climate change.
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But the latest batches of results released on Wednesday and Thursday, which included data from many satellite caucuses, helped Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont close the gap with former Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind.
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A.W.S. is far and away the leader in cloud computing services, but Microsoft and Alphabet, the parent of Google, are both investing heavily to close the gap, and both are willing to undercut Amazon on price.
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Renault have a changed lineup this season, with Germany's Nico Hulkenberg coming in from Force India to partner Britain's Jolyon Palmer, and an all-new power unit that they hope will help close the gap to Mercedes.
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"The purpose of the (Hour of Code) campaign is to close the gap between the demand for computer science and programming skills in the market and the pool of graduates that are getting those skills," said Beitler.
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But even though Woods does not intimidate his rivals like he did during his prime, if his back holds up over the long haul he will surely have plenty more chances to close the gap on Nicklaus.
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Luxury items like the latest Dolce & Gabbana bag can be around 50 percent cheaper in Milan or in Paris than in mainland China, although some brands like Chanel lowered Chinese prices last year to close the gap.
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But if these cities really want to close the gap on the Silicon Valley, investors in these cities are going to be required to take a risk on high-flying start-ups that could be great investments.
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The state-owned banks, including Vakifbank and Halkbank, would outperform the sector in the short term with higher loan growth rates within the central bank's reference range, but private institutions would soon close the gap, they said.
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And it turns out there are several reasons states like Alabama and Georgia are so far apart from states like Nebraska and Wyoming, and why it's unlikely that they'll be able to close the gap anytime soon.
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Millennial was supposed to be a means to an end, a portfolio piece to help me get a job in public radio and to close the gap between where I was and where I wanted to be.
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The gap became a talking point on the campaign trail after presidential candidate Senator Elizabeth Warren published a plan to close the gap by giving $7 billion to minority entrepreneurs and expanding the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA).
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Some businessmen said Sudan has little choice but to float its battered currency, a move they said would close the gap between the official and unofficial currency rates and bring dollars back into the formal banking system.
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But under the Republican's tax proposal, which would swell the deficit by at least $1.5 trillion over the next decade, budget cutters will no doubt sharpen their knives for Social Security and Medicare to close the gap.
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Under the terms of the conservatorship, the two will have no buffer beginning in 28503, meaning that if either posts a loss, it will again have to turn to the Treasury for funds to close the gap.
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Roughly 1.3 million more businesses accepted Visa and Mastercard than American Express in 2018, and Wall Street Journal reporter AnnaMaria Andriotis writes about the steps that the upscale credit card company is taking to close the gap.
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Because more companies are seeking specialized skills and are cutting back on training programs, it may be nearly impossible to close the gap between those who are looking for work and those employers who are seeking employees.
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VIENNA, July 10 (Reuters) - Austria is pursuing plans to give police access to messaging services such as WhatsApp or Skype in an attempt to "close the gap" on criminals who are no longer communicating via the telephone.
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We think live polling can help close the gap between interest in the midterms and knowledge about it, by giving people a reason to learn more about the candidates and explore the rest of The Times's coverage.
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Our mission with The Umbrella is to close the gap between eternal records and fleeting temporal events, allowing our fans to take a little piece of our events home with them now—even if they weren't there.
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Congress's recent rescue package may fail to close the gap opening up between top-rated companies and those further down the credit scale, making it harder for the economy to recover and for hiring to bounce back.
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"Chinese semiconductor companies are estimated to be three years to 10 years behind in technology gap regarding DRAM designing technique," the court wrote, adding that Kim's hiring would help CXMT close the gap and thus hurt Samsung.
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Key investors: Anthem Venture Partners (Abra, Bird, DailyPay), Goodwater Capital (Monzo, Stash, TikTok), PayPal Ventures (Acorns, Ellevest, Tala)Dosh is a cash back startup that aims to close the gap between digital ads and in-store purchases.
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" Clearly hoping to close the gap that had opened between her family and the public, she said Diana's funeral would be "a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.
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At a farewell news conference, Annan listed as top achievements the promotion of human rights, the fighting to close the gap between extreme poverty and immense wealth, and the U.N. campaign to fight infectious diseases like AIDS.
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While Microsoft may have fallen behind on this console cycle, it's counting on the release of its amped-up Xbox One X in November to help close the gap—though it's been pretty quiet about exact sales numbers.
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TinyMOS, a startup from Singapore which is producing a pocket shooter for stargazers, dropped by the Mashable office to show us some tricks it's building into its camera's brain, to help amateurs close the gap with the pros.
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Several top 20 shareholders contacted by Reuters say that Deutsche Bank must swiftly close the gap with its U.S. rivals by winning back market share and improving the performance of its investment bank, especially in the United States.
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I have come to hear about the work of the ngangkari—Aboriginal healers of the deserts of central Australia—and how they might be able to help 'close the gap' in the health and wellbeing of indigenous people.
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Sources say companies seeking to buy copper at the moment can easily find sellers and any deficits in the short term would see prices rise, which would see more scrap heading for the market to close the gap.
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Binotto said that, with dominant Mercedes having won the first five races in one-two formation and running away with both championships for the sixth season in a row, Ferrari had to be bold to close the gap.
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It took three years for her to close the gap between what she and Duchovny were making in the 1990s after becoming fed up with accepting less than "equal pay for equal work," she told the Daily Beast.
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It's a seeming attempt to close the gap between the television format and the platforms their stars are more famous on, to make you feel like you are as close to them as social media makes you feel.
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Japan's biggest automaker is looking to close the gap with EV leaders such as Nissan Motor Co and Tesla Inc as battery-powered cars gain traction around the globe as a viable emission-free alternative to conventional cars.
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Trump has been stepping up his fundraising as he seeks to close the gap with Democratic presidential nominee Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonLewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Fighter pilot vs.
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The reason for this attention is simple: Democrats trail in the state's top two statewide races, but party officials believe there is a slim chance when all votes are counted they could close the gap and emerge victorious.
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Oxfam warned that world leaders risked failing on their pledge to reduce inequality by 2030 and urged them to develop plans to close the gap which should be funded by progressive taxation and clamping down on tax dodging.
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"Our governments are now moving forward collaboratively to develop a framework and specific actions, including investments in green infrastructure, to meet the commitments we made in Paris in order to close the gap," McKenna said in the statement.
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Porsche, Jaguar, Audi and other long-established carmakers have watched as Tesla has sprinted ahead, but Tesla will soon lose one crucial benefit that the later arrivals may be able to use to close the gap: tax benefits.
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In its open letter to the company's management, Starboard pointed out that AAP's operating margins were 800 to 900 basis points behind AutoZone and O'Reilly, and they wanted management to close the gap with a series of operational improvements.
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Although the administration officials said the increase in tariffs does not signal the talks have broken down, Mnuchin declined to speculate on whether the two countries would be able to close the gap before the end of the week.
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With less than three weeks before the primaries that will appoint the 2017 nominee, pressure is growing on Sarkozy, a former president, to find ways to close the gap with former prime minister Juppe, the frontrunner in opinion polls.
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Olivier Giroud's first-half header at Stamford Bridge saw Chelsea close the gap on fourth-placed London rivals Tottenham Hotspur to two points and on Liverpool in third to three points, with a game in hand over the Merseysiders.
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I called a few Tenants Rights advice numbers about how to close the gap between 21 days off and 13 days off, and they essentially told us we'd have to go to court if we wanted a better deal.
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The bill, which currently sits in the Senate Judiciary Committee, would close the gap in federal law that allows abusers under a temporary order of protection to continue to possess or buy firearms for the duration of the order.
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CAIRO, April 18 (Reuters) - The Egyptian pound weakened further against the dollar on the black market on Monday, extending its recent decline despite central bank efforts to close the gap between demand and supply in the dollar-starved economy.
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A tilting rear screen is never going to close the gap between having a camera with interchangeable lenses, but it adds enough versatility that I felt more well-equipped with the X70 than I would have with my X100s.
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The deal will place Apple's iPhones in Reliance and Jio retail stores in 900 cities across India, giving the company a chance to boost its meagre 3 percent market share and close the gap with market leader Samsung Electronics .
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The story behind the foundering employee delivery initiative, which has not been reported, offers insight into Walmart's ongoing attempts to find unconventional ways to close the gap with Amazon in the game of cheap, rapid, doorstep delivery of packages.
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A seething and swearing Verstappen battled back but could not close the gap, finishing runner-up 1.469 seconds adrift of Hamilton, who had never previously won in a season where he has taken the title with races to spare.
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The reason for all the attention is simple: Democrats trail in Florida's top two statewide races, but party officials believe there is a slim chance that when all votes are counted they could close the gap and emerge victorious.
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While Samsung and Apple continued to occupy long-time number one and two spots in the global smartphone market in the second quarter of the year, Chinese Android OEMs Huawei, Oppo and Xiaomi are continuing to close the gap.
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Political science experts note, however, that her progressive record as a senator and the proposed policies she's outlined as part of her campaign, including a massive plan to close the gap in teacher pay, could help boost voter support.
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However, she may yet be haunted by a throwaway line at her press conference that the ECB was not there to close the gap between yields on the safest euro zone government bonds and those issued by other countries.
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Anna Nordqvist finished off Morgan Pressel 13.53&213.5 to close the gap to a point at about the same time that Bronte Law drilled in a 216-foot birdie on the 22021th to go two up on Ally McDonald.
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I am incentivized to align myself with those words, to close the gap between what I say and who I am, and this closure is fatal to irony, which depends on the self-conscious presence of such a gap.
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"The objective would be to close the gap in legal framework that allows asylum-seekers who may not have a meritorious claim to asylum get into the United States and remain there," one former DHS official told BuzzFeed News.
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The bill, an attempt to close the gap on criminals who avoid communicating via telephone, was drafted by the Social Democrats' conservative junior coalition partners (OVP) who invited political, technological and legal experts for their opinions by Aug. 21.
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"If we just had the legislation, and employers weren't acting and women weren't asking, then it's going to close the gap a little bit but not enough," said Megan Costello, executive director of the Mayor's Office of Women's Advancement.
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CAIRO, March 9.553 (Reuters) - The Egyptian pound weakened on the black market despite central bank moves to close the gap between dollar demand and supply by pumping U.S. currency into the market, bankers and currency traders said on Sunday.
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With only one state left in the primary race — Washington DC, which has a delegation comprised of more superdelegates (26) than pledged delegates (20) — Sanders cannot win enough of the popular vote or pledged delegates to close the gap.
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The tools they use to do so—the tools these big players use to close the gap between what they can imagine and what they can create—remain prohibitively expensive for most creators, though less so than a decade ago.
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I live across the country from them after moving to Seattle from New York to close the gap in my long distance relationship, so we try to talk on the phone at least once a week (and text far more frequently).
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Leading by seven hundredths from the first two rounds she laid down the gauntlet with a course record 50.49 seconds, only for Meyers Taylor to improve it with 50.46 to close the gap to four hundredths going into the final run.
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Domestic production and imports of other animal proteins like poultry, beef, mutton and seafood will also increase to partially close the gap, the analyst said, but there could still be a gap of as much as 10 million tonnes, he said.
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Since taking the helm in July, Chief Executive Officer Marvin Ellison has replaced nearly the entire merchandising team to get more in-demand products on shelves as the company tries to close the gap with larger rival Home Depot Inc.
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Rosberg has won the last two races to close the gap on championship-leading team mate Lewis Hamilton to two points and the Briton cut a frustrated figure on Friday, finishing seventh in the second session after suffering a hydraulics issue.
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The bottom line: In the long term, automation will help close the gap — but it will take immediate investment in robotics to get there, according to a recent report on manufacturing competitiveness from Boston Consulting Group and Carnegie Mellon University.
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Target, Wal-Mart and Kohl's each set some sort of online record over the five-day shopping extravaganza that ended with Cyber Monday, but blockbuster digital growth for many bricks-and-mortar retailers wasn't enough to close the gap with Amazon.
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Alibaba invented China's biggest shopping day — 11/11 aka Single's Day — and it dominates the headlines with record sales year-on-year, but another company just stepped out to remind us that others are busy trying to close the gap.
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Manchester City, owned by Arab billionaire Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, won the league with a 22.5-point margin over United last season and are now looking to close the gap on their local rivals off the pitch as well.
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"It's meant for situations where there's a clear gap between the way a current system works and the way it could work when there's knowledge to close the gap," explained Marie Schall, who leads the institute's work in this area.
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And in the Upstate region, a group of counties in the northwest part of South Carolina, his supporters are hopeful that he can at least close the gap on Clinton enough to keep up his campaign's momentum going into Super Tuesday.
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The Harris plan starts with a specific goal: giving the average teacher a $20163,500 raise over four years, which her campaign says would close the gap in what US teachers currently make compared to other professionals with similar education and experience.
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Those effects don't exist at the index level, so the ETF manager is in a constant battle to close the gap between the theoretical performance of the frictionless index and the very messy real world of buying and selling securities.
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But the market is beginning to separate companies capable of meeting new emissions standards from those struggling to do so, which could close the gap in price expectations between buyers and sellers over the next 12-24 months, industry experts say.
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Since many of these effects are secondary (such as height being mistakenly associated with intelligence), you can close the gap by working on your self-presentation, and of course, you'll need to remember that all of these figures are averages.
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The Boilermakers sit two games behind No. 5 Iowa at the top of the conference standings with six games remaining and hope to close the gap by sweeping the season series with the Wolverines following an 87-70 win on Jan.
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In all, Google employees will donate 1 million volunteer hours to assist organizations like Goodwill trying to close the gap between the education and skills of the American workforce and the new demands of the 21st century workplace, Pichai said.
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With polls showing a narrower lead for Mr. Trump in Indiana than in the five Eastern states that he swept on Tuesday, the Cruz campaign's private polling indicates that the bathroom issue has the power to help close the gap.
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Forsyth said the Fuller's deal, which is expected to close in the first half of 2019, could also kick start a year of consolidation, driven by AB InBev's competitors trying to close the gap between themselves and the world's top brewer.
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But if he wants to close the gap with Clinton he essentially has to do so, since Clinton won such enormous landslides of 30 points or more in so many Southern states, and Sanders has to cancel those out somehow.
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He said on Sunday he believed he could close the gap, and left the door open for a so-called floor flight at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia in July if neither has won an outright majority of delegates.
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But then his progress stopped, and he spent the rest of the race trying to close the gap on the other three drivers, Carl Edwards, Kyle Busch and Logano, who all entered the race with a chance to win the championship.
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Before quickly backpedalling, ECB President Christine Lagarde alarmed investors last week, prompting them to dump bonds of weaker Southern European members, by saying it was not the ECB's job to close the gap between the borrowing costs of various members.
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Sign up more legends and free agents Develop its home-grown stars for the future Attract more blue-chip sponsors through Viacom's sales department Organise two/three pay-per-view shows a year So can Bellator close the gap on UFC?
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Texas State (3-8, 2-5), which plays another road game next week to end the season, scored with three seconds left in the half on Tyler Vitt's 53-yard strike to Javen Banks to close the gap to 14-10.
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Flamengo, like many of its peers and rivals in Brazil, is searching for a way to stanch the talent drain to Europe, if not to close the gap — as Dominguez put it — then at least to prevent it from widening.
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"Cutting these costs changes the prospect for communities that will otherwise get left behind," said Commissioner Brendan Carr, adding that eliminating the fees will speed up deployment and help "close the gap" with China, which is also racing to deploy 5G.
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The Madrid text also emphasized the "urgent" need to close the gap between current pledges to reduce emissions and what is required to keep the increase in global average temperatures to "well below" 303 degrees Celsius and ideally to 1.5C.
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The House GOP Better Way plan proposes cutting funding for nutrition assistance for young children, which helps close the gap between resources and needs during a critical period of child development and generates long-run benefits for our children and communities.
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Walmart has, for the last few years, been trying to overhaul its digital efforts to close the gap in online sales between itself and Amazon, which is more than seven times the size of Walmart in US online retail sales.
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While I remain skeptical of the fundamentals of our strategy in Afghanistan, if we are going to continue our commitment we should at least close the gap between strategy and execution that appears to have bedeviled our efforts for so long.
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They took a 78-69 lead after a pull-up jumper by Clarkson with 3:09 left in the third before a three-point play by Adams allowed the Thunder to close the gap to 80-74 heading into the final quarter.
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Jason Waterhouse and Lisa Darmanin of Australia came within a single point of gold but their second-place finish was not enough to close the gap built up with Lange and Carranza Saroli in the 12 preliminary races before the medal round.
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Although Barker, who was skipper of the losing New Zealand America's Cup crew in San Francisco in 2013, tried everything he could to catch Sweden, he was unable to close the gap in time and Artemis Racing romped home with a comfortable lead.
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Baronchelli, who served as a CMO for Alibaba's Lazada platform for four years, says Aspire launched to close the gap left by the traditional banking industry's focus on consumer services or businesses that make more than $10 million in revenue a year.
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So to cut through the noise and finally figure out which ones are authentically and unequivocally working to close the gap, we came up with a couple end-all-be-all rules for testing the fashion world's fight on International Women's Day.
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Without naming names, Dijsselbloem said that those people advocating major debt relief up-front have moderated their stance and those who have said no relief was needed have also shifted their position "a little bit," helping to close the gap in talks.
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It wasn't enough to close the gap against equality, but it was enough to motivate 38% of Australians to vote No. In Britain, fears unleashed by the bathroom scare have also taken hold, particularly over plans to update the Gender Recognition Act (GRA).
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Yet his digital operation remains a sign of promise: His campaign claimed that one of his fundraising emails collected $2 million at once, and a powerful low-dollar operation backed by his most fervent supporters could help close the gap with Clinton.
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It bucked the declining share trend of major vendors to close the gap on Apple from its third-placed slot — selling more than 60 million smartphones in the holiday quarter and expanding its share from 10.8 percent in Q4 2017 to 7.93 percent.
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To close the gap between availability and adoption, all stakeholders in the smart-home ecosystem — device manufacturers, technology providers, utilities, integrators and interoperability standards bodies — must expand the focus from creating a smart home to empowering a smarter consumer through actionable data.
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Kanye West's Yeezy Boost and other fashion sneakers have been credited for the bump in U.S. sales, helping to close the gap with rival Nike, while competitor Under Armour has entered its home market by sponsoring German soccer team FC St Pauli.
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Stanford used a blocked punt by Spencer Jorgensen and recovery in the end zone by Brycen Tremayne to close the gap to 2100-210 late in the first period, but UCLA rebounded to score the game's next 153 points to pull away.
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"A Tory manifesto with no 'good news', unlike Labour's long, popular if expensive shopping list, and a better-than-expected campaign performance by Corbyn, allowed Labour to close the gap in the opinion polls, albeit from a low base," Eurasia's Rahman said.
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When Trump tried to claim he'd close the gap by negotiating better drug prices through Medicare, a constant talking point of his, Wallace had a second graphic already prepped pointing out that, too, wouldn't get Trump even close to eliminating the deficit.
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Shea Weber scored the go-ahead goal and had an assist and the Predators beat the San Jose Sharks, 4-1, in Nashville on Tuesday night to close the gap to two games to one in the teams' Western Conference semifinals series.
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Hamilton and team mate Valtteri Bottas will be looking to carry momentum on to Abu Dhabi and into the winter break, with the Briton on 83 career wins and eager to close the gap on Michael Schumacher's all-time record of 91.
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Experts seemed mostly similarly unfazed by that drop and said Microsoft's Azure cloud business had an opportunity to close the gap with AWS with more customers seeking a hybrid cloud, which is basically a mix of on-premises and public-cloud resources.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Banco Bradesco SA has embarked on its first-ever international acquisition by paying approximately $500 million to buy BAC Florida Bank, which focuses on high-net-worth individuals in a move intended to close the gap with Brazilian rivals.
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Sanders held one of his mega-rallies in Birmingham in mid-January, drawing 7,000 supporters on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, but that does not appear have been enough to close the gap for him with African American voters in the state.
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And they continue to pledge to keep the campaign going until the convention, arguing that delegate-flush states like California, New York and New Jersey that don't hold primaries until the latter part of the primary calendar could help them close the gap.
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"Even if O'Rourke can't close the statewide gap, if he closes it within the range polling is right now, it will close the gap in some of the races that are tightly contested," James Henson, the director of the Texas Politics Project, said.
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Without any of that, it is impossible to see how Solskjaer — in any conceivable time-frame in modern soccer — can close the gap on City or, for that matter, Liverpool, regardless of how much money United tries to throw at the problem.
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Senator Luther Strange, trailing in the polls but hoping Mr. Trump's backing can help him close the gap, summoned Vice President Mike Pence to Birmingham to highlight the president's endorsement as part of a get-out-the-vote push in Alabama's largest city.
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"This is really going to provide a tremendous opportunity for front-line caregivers, those having to diagnose a lot of infections, to close the gap with our testing," John Frels, vice president of research and development at Abbott Diagnostics, told Bloomberg News.
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Some 66% favor same sex marriage, 71% support raising the minimum wage, 63% at least somewhat agree that the government should try to substantially close the gap between rich and poor, and 60% support a ban on assault-style, semi-automatic rifles.
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Airbus expects to close the gap with its competing A350, but deliveries have started gently due to industry-wide cabin supply problems and the European firm's determination to avoid a repeat of industrial problems that beset Boeing's 787 and its own A380.
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But perhaps the greatest damage inflicted by the Reagan tax cuts was to our political psyche, making respectable — particularly among Republicans — the terrifying notion that high deficits resulting from tax cuts don't matter because faster economic growth will quickly close the gap.
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FCA has been retooling some U.S. factories to boost output of lucrative sport-utility vehicles and trucks while ending production of some unprofitable sedans to boost margins in North America and close the gap on larger U.S. rivals General Motors and Ford Motor.
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"We really believe this is about limiting Senator Sanders's lead and making sure that it is possible for an opposing candidate to close the gap in the remaining states that become more friendly," said Michael Halle, a senior adviser to Mr. Buttigieg.
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The speedier Japanese team quickly picked up the pace, however, and after two clever offloads — the first a nifty no-look pass by outside center Timothy Lafaele — Matsushima scored the first of his three tries to close the gap to 7-5.
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The race in Qatar ended in a heartbreak for Britain's Callum Hawkins who managed to close the gap on the leaders near the end only to finish fourth for the second time running, this time missing out on the medal by six seconds.
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The planet's hope, coming out of those Paris talks, was that we'd see such growth in renewable energy that we'd begin to close the gap between what physics demands and what our political systems have so far allowed in terms of action.
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"Azures renewed growth doesnt yet pose a threat to AWSs supremacy in the cloud market, but it does present an opportunity to further close the gap on Amazon and increase its lead over other cloud providers," said Andrew MacMillen of Nucleus Research.
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As The Wall Street Journal noted on Tuesday, the ETFMG Alternative Harvest Fund, with $629 million of assets, ended the day Thursday at $43.01, or 41 cents above the value of its underlying assets, only to close the gap the next day.
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But the Clinton campaign is doing everything it can to cut into Mr. Sanders' sizable lead here so that she can close the gap and claim both a moral victory and momentum as the race moves to more favorable territory in Nevada and South Carolina.
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The immense clothespin, according to the city's boosters, links Philadelphia's colonial heritage to its difficult present; it reflects the city's efforts to close the gap between rich and poor; and in its evocation of simple, domestic things it brings all men and women together.
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Many of the excuses for this are outlined in Tigges's initial quote: that men work harder and are therefore more deserving, that women prioritize family and social obligations over work, and that it is completely up to women to close the gap by working harder.
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It's a very human desire—a need, even—to want to get closer to people who we think understand us, and it makes perfect sense that we'd want to close the gap between us and those who create art that resonates deeply within our bones.
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From the CBO's perspective, for example, it would be nearly impossible to substantially close the gap between those who do and don't have coverage without an individual mandate (to which the agency attributes powers to compel coverage that are strongly contradicted by real-world data).
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The Islanders made another push in the first 4:36 of the third, when Lee scored his second goal and Beauvillier scored twice in a 75-second span, the second on a redirect of a Johnny Boychuk slapshot, to close the gap to 7-6.
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Calgary first needs to close the gap on its provincial rival — Edmonton won all four Battle of Alberta meetings by a combined 20-11 score and set the tone by piling up 12 goals in a season-opening, home-and-home sweep a year ago.
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In May, the White House announced a new effort to close the gap between "the 95 percent of Americans who support organ donation and the roughly 50 percent who are registered organ donors," pledging to work with Facebook, Google, and Twitter to improve awareness.
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Even as the team rose to a franchise-best 56 wins and their first trip to the Eastern Conference final, the question of how to close the gap with the Cleveland Cavaliers during LeBron James' prime—if a solution to "how" even existed—continued.
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What's more, by blowing a $1.5 trillion hole in the deficit to pay for their tax giveaways to the wealthy and powerful, the GOP is setting up a scenario justifying further raids on Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security in future years to close the gap.
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"We are seeing social instability in the coffee zones where they start talking about stoppages, and they place a very great responsibility on the shoulders of the government, which is trying to close the gap between production costs and the international price," Velez said.
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Waymo contends — and Uber denies — that the deal was part of Uber's plan to steal intellectual property from Google's self-driving-car project, which would later be renamed Waymo, in order to close the gap in an area of technology essential to its business.
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Akbar Al Baker, the chief executive of Qatar Airways, said as much during a news conference on Tuesday, immediately joining the ranks of corporate bosses who have dismissed efforts to improve gender diversity and close the gap in pay and employment between men and women.
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While knowledge about the benefits of hospice and palliative care are not widespread throughout minority and underserved communities, the same study found that 85033 percent of Hispanics and 94 percent of Chinese speakers want to learn more—identifying a clear opportunity to close the gap.
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Boris Johnson&aposs Conservative Party remains on course to win a majority of seats in the UK Parliament next week and form a new government, according to the latest polling which indicates that Labour is rapidly running out of time to close the gap.
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Although there is no clear solution to the issue of unequal opportunity between countries, The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development presented in its recent social mobility report different policies that could help close the gap between disparities in intergenerational upward income mobility.
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It was Stuhec's sixth win of the season and helped her to close the gap on overall World Cup leader Mikaela Shiffrin who finished 11th, having pulled out of Friday's combined event along with team mate Vonn because of safety concerns about the course conditions.
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The Amazon Web Services partnership will try to close the gap with league-level data from the NFL's Next Gen Stats, which capture location data, speed, and acceleration for every player on the field hundreds of times a minute through microchips in their pads.
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"On its own, no I don't think what they've announced is enough to meaningfully close the gap," said a top 20 Hammerson shareholder, adding that the company's plan was "in the right direction" but "could have been a bit bolder" and included more disposals.
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Some of these innovations seek to close the gap for the 1.7 billion underbanked people in the world who have no access to payments, both by reducing costs and frictions and by creating an alternative payment infrastructure in places that lack stable and reliable currency systems.
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The likes of traditionally brick-and-mortar-centric Best Buy and Wal-Mart have made great strides to compete more effectively online, but they need to continue to evolve in order to close the gap with e-commerce powerhouse Amazon, said former Best Buy CEO Brad Anderson.
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"We see the ability of the A321 to go long-range in a very competitive way, as a way to change the industry and to completely close the gap between the single-aisle and the long-range," by allowing the A321 to fly further, Faury said.
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Upside potential for the banks' National Ratings may arise if they successfully close the gap with their larger Indonesian peers in terms of the size of operations and assets, while maintaining sound asset quality records, high core capitalisation and healthy profitability with predominantly low-cost funding bases.
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They needed that when the Rebels (210-278, 21-553) engineered their longest scoring drive of the season, going 255 yards in 24 plays to close the gap to 244-14 on running back Snoop Conner's 1-yard run with 5:45 left in the final quarter.
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The former vice president has led public opinion polls by double digits since announcing his campaign, but the two controversies will raise questions about whether he can retain his front-runner status or whether other Democrats can use the abortion remarks, in particular, to close the gap.
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The Chicago Cubs may have opened the door for the Milwaukee Brewers to close the gap in the National League Central nearly two weeks ago, but they are doing their best to slam it shut with just a little over a week remaining in the season.
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Like Rubio and Cruz, Sanders's only chance at staying in the game is to close the gap with Clinton in states that she is projected to win, picking off enough delegates to sustain the argument that he is running a viable campaign against the Democratic heir apparent.
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But Houston has lost the defensive specialist Trevor Ariza in free agency to the Phoenix Suns and is on the hunt for roster upgrades to close the gap with the Golden State Warriors after the teams played a memorable seven-game series in the Western Conference finals.
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And while Tongue Twisters was written primarily for an audience in the UAE and Middle East (the nature of the book makes it nearly impossible to translate), the Bologna Fair's recognition of a book like this one could be considered a small step to close the gap.
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"The true test of success is whether the follow-on negotiations can close the gap between the United States and North Korea on the definition of denuclearization and lay out specific, verifiable steps that Pyongyang will take to reduce the threat posed by its nuclear weapons."
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WASHINGTON — After two days and more than 10 hours of questioning of Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook chief executive, there was widespread consensus among lawmakers that social media technology — and its potential for abuse — had far outpaced Washington and that Congress should step in to close the gap.
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And China continues to close the gap: while China's economy is growing at its slowest rate since 1992, It is still reporting growth greater than that of the US. China reported 6% economic growth in the third quarter of 20183; the US reported 2.1% third-quarter growth.
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SAO PAULO, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Alesat Combustíveis SA, a Brazilian fuel distribution company whose takeover was blocked by antitrust regulators on Wednesday, is pondering how best to accelerate domestic expansion, including bringing in a partner to help close the gap with lager rivals, its chief executive officer said.
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"One of the things I have been wringing my hands over is this divergence between very strong consumer confidence and retail sales that have just been going nowhere so maybe we are starting to close the gap," said Jack Ablin, chief investment officer at Cresset Capital Management in Chicago.
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Sanders hopes to close the gap in pledged delegates in California and New Jersey and sway superdelegates — party leaders who can back any candidate — to support him over Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonLewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Fighter pilot vs.
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But by 2024, the company wants to take advantage of a planetary alignment, which happens once every two years with Mars and Earth, to sort of close the gap between the planets and launch the first crude mission to Mars, land there, and put boots on the ground.
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The victories are crucial because Dallas is in a pitched battle with the surging Portland Trail Blazers for the No. 6 seed in the Western Conference playoff race while desperately trying to close the gap on the Memphis Grizzlies, the team that currently holds the coveted No. 5 seed.
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He believes the company can close the gap in the market through a variety of use cases, including partnering with third-party logistics giants like Amazon, FedEx or even the U.S. Postal Service, auto part distributors, consumer goods, food and beverage distributors as well as medical and pharmaceutical companies.
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This was WCW's standard modus operandi at the time: sign discarded WWE wrestlers and push them to the top of the card in the hopes that name recognition would close the gap between it and WWE (despite WWE's unpopularity at the time, WCW still consistently lagged in the ratings).
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Jim RenacciJames (Jim) B. RenacciMedicare for All won't deliver what Democrats promise GOP rep: If Mueller had found collusion, 'investigation would have wrapped up very quickly' House Ethics Committee extends probe into Renacci MORE (R) has struggled to close the gap after winning his own primary in early May.
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DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Co's monumental announcement on Monday that it will close three car assembly plants in North America and slash its workforce will only partially close the gap between capacity and demand for the automaker's sedans, according to a Reuters analysis of industry production and capacity data.
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Members of the Sunrise Movement, a grassroots organization founded by climate activists, and New Hampshire Youth Movement, a group made up of former students from the state, have watched former South Bend, Indiana, mayor Pete Buttigieg steadily rise in the polls and start to close the gap with Sanders.
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Emerging from an academic paper Mr. Zadeh published in 1965 as a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, "fuzzy logic," as he called it, was an ambitious effort to close the gap between mathematics and the intuitive way that humans talk, think and interact with the world.
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Because the state's delegates are awarded proportionally, the Sanders campaign is hoping that he can close the gap in polling before April 19 if not pull off a stunning upset like he did in Michigan, where he came from more than 20 points behind to edge out Clinton.
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In the last week, two studies have shed light on the persistence of the wage gap and how women approach investing: Efforts to close the gap are moving at a "snail's pace" and parity is expected to take another two centuries, according to research published by Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
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"Three times as many 12-to-14-year-old girls killed themselves in 2015 as in 2007, compared with twice as many boys," writes Twenge, noting that "the suicide rate is still higher for boys, in part because they use more-lethal methods, but girls are beginning to close the gap."
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Progress was already slow (one 2015 analysis found efforts to meet UN-backed goals to close the gap "stalling" in 80 countries), but now with the refugee crisis and the nationalist mood spreading across the west, the issue of girls' education is at risk of getting pushed aside once again.
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However, several analysts said that Microsoft's earnings also showed the company was making the right moves to stay competitive with Amazon Web Services, and that its big bet on hybrid-cloud technology — which mixes traditional legacy servers and data centers with public-cloud infrastructure — could help it close the gap.
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If Mr. Trump cannot close the gap and at least limit his eventual deficit to five percentage points or less in those states, Republican strategists say, Senators Patrick J. Toomey of Pennsylvania, Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire and Richard M. Burr of North Carolina will find their seats in jeopardy.
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"While Microsoft and Google can hire and acquire their way through the software stack to close the gap with AWS, the growing data-gravity gap — the amount of data managed by S3 which natively uses AWS services — will make it very hard for competitors to catch up," he pointed out.
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The president said that it was possible that the meeting could lead to a peace treaty formally ending the Korean War of 1950-1953, but neither the United States nor North Korea indicated that Mr. Kim had agreed to close the gap between the two sides on his nuclear arsenal.
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Speculation is rife in Egypt that the central bank could devalue the currency any day in an effort to close the gap between the official exchange rate of about 8.8 pounds to the dollar and the black market rate that has fluctuated at levels weaker than 13 pounds in recent weeks.
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The proposal would cut the wealth of billionaires in the United States in half in 15 years and entirely close the gap in wealth growth between billionaires and the average American family, according to University of California Berkeley economists Gabriel Zucman and Emmanuel Saez, who advised Sanders on his plan.
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I'd had some invitations based on some op-eds to do a nonfiction book, but the fiction thing felt so elusive to me, and I felt like it ran parallel to the path that I was on, and I couldn't close the gap until I just sat down and wrote the entire thing.
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Minnesota Senator and 2020 presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar made it a priority to close the gap in gun legislation called the "boyfriend loophole," in which partners convicted of domestic violence can purchase a firearm if their partner was not a spouse, didn't have children with them, or live with them at any point.
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It's still true in theory, but no longer having the option to interact physically means learning to use screen time in a more intentional way — actively listening to our friends over FaceTime, mirroring one another's body language and expressions so as to close the gap of social distancing, no mindless scrolling in sight.
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Aides said Mr. Bloomberg, a former mayor of New York, saw an effort to close the gap between so-called superstar regions like Silicon Valley and slower-growing areas like Akron, Ohio, as the best way to ensure that the economy delivered prosperity to Americans up and down the income distribution chain.
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Booker has not recently weighed in on the idea of reparations, but his baby bonds have been pushed by William Darity, a Duke researcher who supports the idea of reparations but has argued that baby bonds could be a more realistic way to close the gap of racial inequality in this country.
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" The JSP and CBJ released this week include large sections on reforming the workforces at State and USAID but the details are buried in bureaucratic jargon like, "We will close the gap between current and desired workforce capabilities by adopting effective workforce planning tools and hiring programs with best practice metrics and targets.
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That might be more of a dream than a goal, but if the league has any chance to close the gap on the Big Ten, the Big 12, the Atlantic Coast Conference, the Pacific-12 and the Southeastern Conference, it will need a new wave of up-and-coming coaches to develop.
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" A network source confirms the motivation behind Strahan's move, saying, "GMA has been in freefall – their show has been number one for four years, and GMA was freaking out because Today is getting better and getting younger fans, and therefore they moved Michael because they are trying to close the gap with a younger demographic.
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Primary season, sure, but average voters outside the bubble aren't interested in the sudden theory that Matt Lauer is hopelessly biased against Hillary Clinton and really a secret Trump supporter sent to moderate a national forum to help him continue to close the gap on Clinton (now essentially a dead heat in the RCP average).
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Houston dropped a 7-3 decision to the Mariners on Sunday to remain three games behind Toronto for the second wild card but has a chance to close the gap as it plays its next seven contests against AL West bottom-feeders Oakland and the Los Angeles Angels before another showdown with Seattle at home.
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"That's a meaningful amount of money that could certainly help them close the gap with Waymo and put them even further ahead of Ford," he said, referring to technology leader Alphabet's Waymo and GM rival Ford Motor Co. Reporting by Ben Klayman, additional reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by Nick Zieminski
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"I just keep doing the same thing I'm doing right now," the GOP presidential nominee said when asked on CNBC how he would close the gap in battleground states where he is trailing Democrat Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonLewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Fighter pilot vs.
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What's clear from the report, though, is that while developing countries will begin to have longer life expectancies, they won't close the gap with developed countries, because doing so would require eliminating infectious disease, expanding basic services and infrastructure that affect life expectancy, solving income inequality worldwide, and finally making modern medical techniques broadly available.
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But it has a sad ring of truth to it: While national papers like the New York Times and Wall Street Journal seem to be very healthy, it is difficult to find local papers that have adapted to a world where both print and digital ad sales are declining while subscriptions aren't close the gap.
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The Clippers are one of several teams active on the trade market as they try to add an impact piece to help close the gap between themselves and Golden State, but the return of point guard Chris Paul from a thumb injury might be the only thing the team needs to make things interesting.
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"That's a meaningful amount of money that could certainly help them close the gap with Waymo and put them even further ahead of Ford," he said, referring to technology leader Alphabet's Waymo and GM rival Ford Motor Co. Reporting by Ben Klayman, additional reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by Nick Zieminski
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Turnout was about 28500 percent (compared to more than 6900 percent in the 2628 presidential election), suggesting the disillusionment of many voters over the political class and its inability to address unemployment or to close the gap between coastal cities and the country's interior, where young people are susceptible to the siren call of extremism.
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Pew Research Center polling found that alignment began to break down when Trump became a political force: NBC News/Wall Street Journal found the same thing, with data going up to February 2017: Within the past year, the trend has abated somewhat, as Republicans have become more pro-trade and started to close the gap with Democrats.
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ET, FSN Southeast (Atlanta), TSN2 (Toronto) ABOUT THE HAWKS (24-26): Atlanta will face the Raptors three times and Cleveland twice over the final 23 games of the regular season as it tries to close the gap on No. 231 Boston and No. 211 Miami in the East while holding off a group of teams coming from behind.
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And rather than endorsing more radical efforts to close the gap — and we can do much, much more as a country than we have dared try — he insists that we need to accept that the gap is partly genetic, that what environmental dimensions it has are similarly resistant to intervention, and that efforts to bridge it are unwise.
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And we will see, I mean, if we had the Industrial Revolution creating this huge gap between a few industrial powers and everybody else and then it took 150 years to close the gap, and over the last few decades the gap has been closed or closing as more and more countries which were far behind are catching up.
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Instagram Stories adds (from left): Multiple text boxes per image, Story saving, Hands-Free video recording Instagram Stories adds (from left): Multiple text boxes per image, Story saving, Hands-Free video recording The new features give Instagram the fun and flexibility needed to start catching up with Snapchat as it tries to close the gap between their creative tools.
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A.E.K. is back in Greece's top flight after several years of hardship and financial crisis, some of it perhaps brought on by rash decisions prompted by the need to try to close the gap on a runaway rival, but less than a week after its cup tie it beat Olympiacos to leapfrog its rival in the table.
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The trade gap is currently running a bit shy of 3 percent of GDP, while imports are 15 percent of GDP: If the price elasticity of import demand is around 1, which is a typical estimate for the short-to-medium run, a 20 percent across the board tariff might, other things equal, be enough to close the gap.
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"My mission is to create more content in Arabic so people can learn, get connected, and [close] the gap between what we have access to and what the West has access to," he said during a July meeting in Jamalon's bustling main office in Amman, which features amenities like pool tables that Silicon Valley types would find familiar.
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Not only do Google's own smartphones run a highly optimized version of Android—and the most current, which is notable considering many Android phones don't get the latest Android OS for months after each release—but the company often relies less on hardware innovation and more on sophisticated software features to close the gap between Pixel and other high-end handsets.
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It takes 2,363 delegates to win the nomination -- and since every contest on the docket is "proportional," meaning Sanders can't claim any winner-take-all victories to quickly close the gap, it means something dramatic would have to happen to either cause Clinton's superdelegates to abandon her or somehow give Sanders wins by a margin of better than 2-to-1 the rest of the way.
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