"Over the past two years, the health-care reform that Obama has advocated has created a vast divide within American society and between diametrically opposed political parties, while immigration has separated the American people into two camps that cannot bear the very existence of the other," a scholar named Zhang Guoqing wrote Monday in the Beijing News.
And they exacerbate an already vast divide between rich and poor.
And with tools like IBM's Many Eyes and Gapminder, which now allow data visualization to combine some strengths of stories with hard numbers, the distance between story and statistics may not be such a vast divide.
The first is that there is a latent but potentially vast divide between the grass roots and the conservative elite on the United States' most important fiscal issue — the twin entitlements of Social Security and Medicare.
But the Tories said forbidding state school pupils from taking the qualification "served to widen the already vast divide between state and independent schools".
What artist who survived the Thatcher years — the vast divide between the haves and the have-nots, the racism, the willful ignorance about AIDS — can take royalty, let alone politics, to heart?
For every jury that tries a white-collar criminal for tax evasion, collusion, conspiracy, embezzlement, racketeering or fraud, there is a lawyer thinking about the worst-case scenario: how to get a client into the best prison with the easiest sentence possible and smoothly bridge the vast divide between polite society and prison.
This question goes deeper and can be traced to the vast divide between two seemingly overlapping yet disparate fields: international education as those of us in the exchange or internationalisation field know it, and international education in the field of international development.
For ordinary citizens, these stories only reinforce the pervasive suspicion that China's legal and medical systems are inherently prejudiced — and that the vast divide between the powerful and the weak cannot be bridged by the action of the government, that chronic bungler.
"For too long, children in state maintained schools have been unfairly denied the right to study for qualifications like the IGCSE, which has only served to widen the already vast divide between state and independent schools in this country.
