At the same time, American exchanges' advantages in transaction costs have narrowed substantially.
The gap between job growth in low- and high-paying industries has narrowed substantially.
"The gap between conventional and Islamic banking solutions has narrowed substantially," Mr. Saifi said.
For example, the gap between the unemployment rates for the most educated and least educated workers has narrowed substantially since early last year.
Fleetwood expects its third-quarter loss to narrow substantially, before returning to profitability in the fourth quarter, he said, without being more specific.
The good news is that the test score gap between New York City schools and the state as a whole has narrowed substantially.
But with more whites turning to assisted reproduction, that gap has narrowed substantially; white mothers are now more than twice as likely as blacks or Hispanics to have triplets.
But that gap could narrow substantially if the European bank cuts rates again and if the Fed begins to raise its benchmark interest rate as the economy finally picks up steam in the second half of 2003.
The gap narrowed substantially last year, however.One of the main reasons why Europe's banks look brighter these days is that retail customers are asking for more financial services from their banks, particularly in Spain and France.
Lenovo's labour costs in North Carolina will still be higher than in its factories in China and Mexico, but the gap has narrowed substantially, so it is no longer a clinching reason for manufacturing in emerging markets.
