A change from the Disunited Nation back home Photograph: UPI/Landov/Barcroft Media Updated at 1.58pm BST 1.54pm BST I mentioned briefly this morning that Britain's current account deficit had widened last quarter to a worse-than=expected £13bn.
The opportunity gap has widened this year as some cash-strapped local agencies have eliminated thousands of summer school slots, leaving needy students with fewer ways to keep pace with their more affluent peers.
The price range has widened this year, with sales stretching from $125,000 to $457,500 for one-bedroom co-ops, compared with $150,000 to $350,000 last year, according to Joyce Coletti, a sales agent with Ryan & Walis Realty.
For 25 of 30 cancer–sex combinations examined, 5-year survival was lower among more deprived patients diagnosed during 1996 2000, and the deprivation gap in survival had widened since 1986 1990 for 15 of these 25 cancers, similar to the trends seen in England and Wales.
In 2005 there were 46% more murders per head in states with the death penalty than in those without it, and that gap has widened since 1990.
Dr Murray and his colleagues report that the gap between life expectancies in the highest and lowest ranked counties has widened since 1985 (see chart below).
Meanwhile, the gap between the rich and the poor has widened since 1994, creating one of the world's most unequal societies, according to World Bank data.
The government claims it is closing this attainment gap, yet its own GCSE data published on Thursday shows that the gap has widened since last year.
In testimony provided by the men, at least one of whom was part of last year's crackdown on opposition to the Iranian regime, the film reveals: Deep divisions within the Revolutionary Guard, the powerful military organisation at the heart of the Iranian state, which have widened since last year's repression of the so-called green opposition.
