"It showed me how easy it is to bridge a gap," he said.
In Russian, babushka has several meanings that help to bridge a gap between two cultures.
Ms. Pearl, at one point an independent bookseller herself, is trying to bridge a gap that might be unbridgeable.
The AMRC is attempting to bridge a gap that many frustrated industrialists feel is a chasm: the disconnection between cutting-edge university research and companies.
And, he said, he is more likely to cut a deal on his commission during the negotiating process to bridge a gap between the buyer and the seller.
Stephen R. Meyers, president of Houlihan/Lawrence, said his organization had been able to "bridge a gap between the small mom and pop office and the national franchises".
"It tends to be young, socially inept guys who use magic as a way to bridge a gap of communication with people and get people to be interested in them and like them.
But as he prepares to film a new, six-part mini-series, featuring a slightly wrinklier David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, he must know that he has to bridge a gap that divides not just chapters, but whole generations and cultures.
George J. Tenet's success this week in helping to forge a cease-fire, however fragile, between the Palestinians and Israelis was not the first time he had been able to bridge a gap between warring factions.
Post Office Ltd has to bridge a gap of around £37m in its crown network (the post offices owned and run by Post Office Ltd rather than by the independent sub-postmasters) and to do this it has embarked on a further cost-cutting exercise.
