Zakuani has said that his ultimate goal is to open an academy to teach life coaching and soccer to teenagers to be a "bridge between talent and actually making it".
Bridges to talent pools needed rebuilding.
No other Polish girl who was in Philadelphia also competed in Opatija, evidence of the depth of Poland's bridge-playing talent.
Bill Duffy, another of the power agents, said that Derek Fisher, the current union president and the respected Lakers veteran, was "perfect for the leadership role" of bridging the talent gap, holding folks together.
The artist's claim to fame bridges many talents, but she's best known for fashioning astonishing baked goods.
Whether adapting EM Forster or (one would think) more cinematically resistant works like Remains of the Day and (one of my favourites) Mr and Mrs Bridge, Jhabvala's talent is to capture the essence, to bring out the universality of her subject without surrendering to the temptation to make it more topical, more relevant.
The launch of 18F is the latest government attempt to bridge the tech talent gap.
Much water has flowed under the bridge since stellar talents such as Richard Thompson and the late singer Sandy Denny passed through their ranks.
Throughout the Middle East, media companies and government projects have worked to elevate gulf talent and bridge a longstanding divide between the region's conservative ways and the comparatively more liberal attitudes found elsewhere.
The other scheme is for emerging artists, a Futures Fund which promises to give five individuals a bursary of £30,000 "to help young talent to bridge the development gap from school or college to becoming a working artist".
Indeed, with Mr. Spector's own talent for bridge — he achieved the rank of life master at age 16 in 1974 — and his expertise in all varieties of bonds, it was widely assumed that Mr. Cayne would pass on the reins to Mr. Spector.
