1.   A nation of levelers, Norway has a tax structure designed to reduce the gap between the richest and the poorest.

2.   This had the effect of reducing the gap for the UK.

3.   A fall in domestic rates would reduce the gap between Chilean and U.S. interest rates, weakening the Chilean peso and increasing earnings at exporting companies.

4.   A stronger economic recovery might prompt the Japanese central bank to raise interest rates, reducing the gap with Australian rates.

5.   But hand recounts in Palm Beach and Broward counties, plus recertified totals from at least three other counties, reduced the gap between the candidates.

6.   Evidently, China intends to reduce the gap between its nuclear capability and those of the United States and Russia by developing small nuclear warheads.

7.   He said the broker has also helped reduce the gap between the bid and the offer on sales, reducing transaction costs.

8.   In reading, only Delaware reduced that gap.

9.   In the long term, you have to reduce the gap in worker productivity.

10.   It has conditioned interest-rate cuts on the government reducing the gap between public spending and income.