21.   Mbeki has committed his government to providing basic services to the poor, to bridge the yawning gap between well-off whites and impoverished blacks.

22.   Mexico, with its millions of people in bitter need and its yawning gaps between rich and poor, seems wealthy.

23.   On paper, global personal communications would seem to plug a yawning gap in wireless communications.

24.   Put baldly, there is also a yawning gap between the West and much of the world on the value of a single life.

25.   The days of Bandung were heady days of shared underdevelopment, before yawning material gaps between the richest and poorest of these nations began to widen.

26.   The current revenue-sharing formula reallocates some local TV cash among the poor, but not nearly enough to address the yawning competitive gap.

27.   The improvement means that the yawning gap in earnings between the high school and college educated has stopped widening.

28.   The Mets have a yawning gap that they have not filled.

29.   The most yawning gap in the campaign is the absence of Hamas, the Islamic opposition group that has the strongest backing among Palestinians.

30.   The yawning gaps between rich and poor and between blacks and whites are not going away anytime soon.