In terms of what's next, my summer reading is more fixed than the rest of my holiday plans: I'm very much looking forward to Francis Spufford's Golden Hill (Faber £16.99), Lucia Berlin's A Manual for Cleaning Women (Picador £16.99) and – fixing a gap in my education – John E Woods's translation of Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks (Everyman's Library £12.99).
The Legislature should also fix a serious gap in the law: the inability of people in serious relationships with no children in common to obtain orders of protection in Family Court.
Joseph Lyou, an air district board member who heads the Coalition for Clean Air, said he has been asking staff to bring forward those rules for years and called it "terrible" that the agency has not acted to fix "a frustrating gap in the regulations".
In November 2013, Bloomberg announced he had fixed a $2bn gap in the city's projected 2015 budget and would be "handing over a balanced budget for the first time in the city's modern history".
After cutting city services and raising city taxes, the mayor still needed funds to fix a crippling $6.4 billion budget gap.
If any adjustments are needed, it's much easier to do before the glue dries, so fix any gaps or mistakes now.
Based on the requirement of the LTE-A systems, a fixed time gap between a UL grant and the corresponding UL transmission is specified to be 4 ms in the current standard.
I prefer to be Pollyanna-ish about it: rather than fearing more people, let's believe that the new ones will make a difference, fix the energy gap, work out how to develop sustainable protein sources and so on.
Most likely he's a short-term fix, a stop-gap.
As a result of this refusal to act, thousands of low-income Americans aren't receiving the prescription drugs they need, and many states trying to fix the gap are incurring costs of up to a million dollars a day.
Teams at the Arizona State University and IBM have used a multi-layer structure to fix the gap between the top and bottom electrodes for single base detection [53].
