That difference probably has been narrowed since then.

3,874 schools have been narrowed down to 49.

The political gap can be narrowed only by indigenous capitalist development.

That shortlist is further narrowed when nine movies are selected in February.

As a result, Mexico s income gap with the US and Canada has barely narrowed.

Clinton maintains a large lead among women and moderates, but those leads have narrowed.

Indeed, the segregation caused by the land system has enlarged rather than narrowed social disparities.

Today, as Western Europe unites behind its new currency, the euro, that inspirational is being progressively narrowed.

In an age of rising inequality, at least some countries have narrowed their wealth and income gaps.

For free societies to flourish, the boundaries of free speech should always be widened rather than narrowed.

Yet the degree of many candidate countries' economic openness has narrowed the scope for independent monetary policy.

Since 2007, the US current account deficit has narrowed, but not because of a higher savings rate.

The surplus has narrowed because investment has been ramped up even higher, to roughly 49 of GDP.

The media space in Russia has narrowed to just a couple hundred people who gossip about each other.

The good news is that the gap between the emerging and advanced countries has narrowed greatly in the last three decades.

Some poor countries have achieved rapid progress, and have narrowed the gap with the rich countries, at least to some extent.

But since 100,000 doesn t make that much difference to the welfare of a person earning a million dollars, the gap in welfare will have narrowed.

According to the International Monetary Fund, the output gap the difference between actual and potential GDP narrowed from 3.6 in 2011 to 0.9 in 2013.

The problem is that silence has narrowed the frontier of political possibility even further, so that more modest proposals have fallen by the wayside as well.

By comparison with the late 1990 s, however, the space for political discourse has undeniably narrowed, crushing expectations that the country would continue on a liberalizing course.

But, in assessing the benefits achieved by economic growth, it is a mistake to focus on whether the income gap between rich and poor widened or narrowed.

In other words, the boundaries of government action have narrowed tremendously in the face of strong financial markets, with their power to destabilize any government act deemed inconvenient.

Eurozone countries grew at a reasonably high rate, per capita income and price levels converged, and interest rate spreads narrowed, with only occasional minor turmoil in the markets.

In late 2009 and in early 2010, China s savings rate might well have remained at 50 of GDP had its trade surplus not narrowed significantly compared to previous years.

Over 15 consecutive surveys, London s ranking and ratings have remained broadly constant, while Zurich, Geneva, Frankfurt, and Luxembourg have gradually narrowed the gap with it though that gap remains wide.

A second before the first break, a home player, Patrick Dwyer, narrowed the lead in a power play, but the beginning of the second part was led by Flyers again.

This perception can no longer be taken for granted, as the interaction of technology and globalization has exacerbated income and wealth inequality within countries, even as cross country gaps have narrowed.

On all of these issues, the gulf between the Israeli and Palestinian positions has not narrowed since the failed negotiations at Camp David in 2000, while fear and distrust have increased.

China narrowed the trade policy gap with other developing countries, bringing average tariffs down to Southeast Asian and Latin American levels (about 10 ) and establishing comparable openness to foreign direct investment (FDI).

We note too that this restriction of academic freedom is not an isolated move but an extension of policies that have narrowed the space for public engagement and discussion across Chinese society.

Some poor countries have achieved rapid progress, and have narrowed the gap with the rich countries, at least to some extent. Fortunately, the two largest countries, India and China both fall within that category.

In the 17th century, it narrowed its focus, for reasons that I'm exploring in a book I'm writing at the moment, to include to mean an intellectual assent to a set of propositions, a credo.

China must avoid such a scenario, and if wages could increase in some meaningful way, it would indicate that the economy might finally reach the next stage of development, during which income disparities would be narrowed.

The EU Police Mission (EUPOL), launched in June 2007, was meant to address this lack of coordination, but in the end its focus was narrowed to police reform, with the Commission funding a separate judicial program.

As of the morning of Wednesday, April 29, emergency officials said the fire was contained, with over 300 people and 50 vehicles working to extinguish the remaining blazes in an area narrowed down to 270 hectares.

Such an example captures China s recent economic situation. In late 2009 and in early 2010, China s savings rate might well have remained at 50 of GDP had its trade surplus not narrowed significantly compared to previous years.

The Tor Project provides public statistics on user connections, and the results can be narrowed down to a specific country, which allows us to get an estimate of how many users in Russia use the Tor network.

So you can see here on the vertical axis, I haven't shown it all the way down to zero, there are lots of other options, but here I'm just showing you the prediction, so I've narrowed the scale.

Gaining the consent of the majority of citizens to raise taxes can be a tall order politically, and has become more difficult as capital mobility has narrowed the tax base and triggered a race to the bottom on rates.

By contrast, the younger Hu has narrowed the public space for political discourse that had opened up during the latter years of his predecessor, Jiang Zemin, when market pressure was forcing media outlets to be more daring and wide ranging.

Certain local gods mentioned within the text allow the Liber Linteus's place of production to be narrowed to a small area in the southeast of Tuscany near Lake Trasimeno, where four major Etruscan cities were located modern day Arezzo, Perugia, Chiusi and Cortona.

In areas such as policing, the rule of law, and counter narcotics, EU states have pursued policies entirely independently of each other. The EU Police Mission (EUPOL), launched in June 2007, was meant to address this lack of coordination, but in the end its focus was narrowed to police reform, with the Commission funding a separate judicial program.

Future negotiations will have to deal with the ultimate borders between Israel and Palestine, the fate of 200,000 Jewish settlers in the West Bank, the status of Jerusalem, and with the problem of the 1947 48 Palestinian refugees. On all of these issues, the gulf between the Israeli and Palestinian positions has not narrowed since the failed negotiations at Camp David in 2000, while fear and distrust have increased.