1.   As the White House and Congress tinker with the system the marketplace wrought, that gap could begin to shrink.

2.   But as at San Diego, the gap is beginning to close.

3.   But in recent years, the gap has begun to grow again.

4.   But the gap began to close with attention to late-term abortions.

5.   Economists said the budget deal would control the deficit in coming years, however, when the gap between revenue and spending would otherwise begin widening.

6.   Gap began to guess right in the second half and saw earnings improve even more this year as some big competitors like Merry-Go-Round went under.

7.   If all students left high school with strong basic skills, they say, the earnings gap would begin to narrow.

8.   Since the Vietnam War, when the military-civilian gap began to widen, college sports have had a rapidly decreasing moral relevance.

9.   That gap is beginning to be bridged, however, largely in response to an insistence by patients that their doctors and other healers start working together.

10.   That gap has begun to close in the last few years, though, bringing the city more in line with the national norm.