(YAWNING) I'm a little sleepy myself.

Without sanctions to police global imbalances, the French step forward will take us halfway across a yawning chasm. In mid air, with neither firm ground below nor enough momentum to make it to the other side, is not where the global economy should be.

(YAWNING) SNOW WHITE And you, you're Sleepy.

I sat yawning for hours from being short of breath.

A deep chasm is appearing between countries with regard to implementation.

Before you lies a chasm so deep you can't see the bottom.

We're trying to cross the chasm here between school math and the real world math.

At the same time the chasm between what you are to others and to yourself.

With flapping wings and grinning evil eyes... he points the way to the yawning pits of Hades.

So what's the problem, why has this chasm opened up, and what can we do to fix it?

However, the persistence of suicide attacks illustrated the chasm between the declarations of the Palestinian leaders and their actions.

We have been able to fill those two yawning gaps in paragraph 5 of resolution 59 105 with respect to the agenda items.

And you know if you walk across a chasm, you end up making it worse than if you didn't start at all bigger disaster.

So I'm sitting here looking at the next two decades of my life, this chasm of happiness that we're driving our proverbial convertible straight into.

And we realized that there was a giant chasm between the state of the art of technology in 2004 and where we needed it to be.

It should by now be abundantly clear to all of us that we cannot cross this chasm of development financing by taking a series of small steps.

72. To place all States on an equal footing in the name of free market theory would further deepen the already yawning gap between North and South.

In both Germany and South Korea, economic strength seems to have produced an illusion of policy independence that is opening a chasm between the two countries and their allies a chasm that revelations of US spying, on Merkel in particular, have deepened. Germany and South Korea, however, will gain little, and risk much, if they downgrade their alliance ties in favor of commercially motivated, if unofficial, neutrality.

These are just two of the very personal stories behind the shocking statistics reported by the United Nations Population Fund. The figures show the chasm that exists between rich and poor countries where motherhood is concerned.

A new declaration was badly needed when we began work on it one year ago. Today, it is crucial if we are to prevent an even greater chasm from dividing the world s haves and have nots.

Denmark elected a center left government committed to higher government spending financed by new taxes on the rich. And Greece has just voted for a new property tax to help close its yawning fiscal deficit.

So it's this here, this little gap that you have to close, as Jeffrey Moore calls it, Crossing the Chasm because, you see, the early majority will not try something until someone else has tried it first.

Since 2008, Congress has been filling the yawning HTF gap by providing 54 billion from general revenues. But makeshift solutions have become more contentious and harder to find, culminating in this year s gimmick ridden ten month patch.

We strongly support the proposal for the establishment of a Peacebuilding Commission, since this will go a long way in filling a yawning gap in the consolidation of sustainable peace and security in post conflict countries, particularly in Africa.

Huge tax cuts and rising military spending have fueled an enormous rise in imports, and therefore a yawning trade deficit now accompanies America s weak fiscal position. But US politicians are blaming China and other countries for unfair trade, even threatening them with sanctions.

President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt claims that Shiites are always loyal to Iran, quot while King Abdullah of Jordan has coined the axiom about a rising Shiite crescent. This rise of the Shiites and the resulting Sunni Shia divide is alleged to be creating an ever widening chasm in the region.

This would be a pity for Europe and for Britain. It would underscore the depth of the chasm between leaders who are seeking to advance the cause of European political integration but are out of touch with their electorates, and the British, who do not like European political integration at all.

The most alarming implication of this mode of genetic selection, however, is that only the rich will be able to afford it. The gap between rich and poor, already a challenge to our ideas of social justice, will become a chasm that mere equality of opportunity will be powerless to bridge.

President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt claims that Shiites are always loyal to Iran, while King Abdullah of Jordan has coined the axiom about a rising Shiite crescent. This rise of the Shiites and the resulting Sunni Shia divide is alleged to be creating an ever widening chasm in the region.

Had the Bush administration fulfilled its commitments, Americans taxpayers would have benefited from the elimination of huge agricultural subsidies a real boon in this era of yawning budget deficits. Americans would have been better off as consumers, too, with increased access to a variety of low cost goods from poor countries.

The main culprit behind the languishing fortunes of America s middle class is slow wage growth. After peaking in the early 1970s, real (inflation adjusted) median earnings of full time workers aged 25 64 stagnated, partly owing to a slowdown in productivity growth and partly because of a yawning gap between productivity and wage growth.

DUBAI No visitor to the Middle East can avoid noticing the yawning gap between the educational, entrepreneurial, and occupational aspirations of the region s young people and the harsh reality that deprives so many of them of a positive future. Indeed, in the Middle East, half of those aged 18 25 are either unemployed or underemployed.

On the contrary, the World Bank is a global public institution. But, while the G 7 countries, which dominate voting at the Bank, all declare their commitment to democracy and good governance and espouse promoting them as one of their central objectives there is a yawning gap between what they preach and what they practice.

If recession drags on and Americans continue to blame trade agreements erroneously for growing unemployment, falling wages, and yawning inequality, opposition to these deals will grow. Instead of waiting for the pressure to mount, the next president would do well to preempt it with an ambitious agenda on free trade reform that would benefit everyone.

Without a significant increase in opportunities for political participation, including genuinely competitive elections, the chasm between a predominantly young population and a ruling elite with a narrow generational base will widen. Such continuing political inertia leaves an increasingly young Arab population prey to the appeal of extremist ideologies, while driving the best and brightest to seek their fortune elsewhere.

But social media can also be used effectively to demobilize people, by reducing the chasm between the psychology and power of political leadership and that of the masses. The emerging political class must improve its understanding of iCrowd politics, and learn to harness the power of tools like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, blogs, apps, and text messages.

The continent s fastest growing economies are those that have been willing and able to allow yawning external gaps from 2000 to 2013 26 of GDP, on average, in Liberia, 17 in Mozambique, 14 in Chad, 11 in Sierra Leone, and 7 in Ghana. Rwanda s current account has deteriorated steadily, with the deficit now exceeding 10 of GDP.

Two more positive notes for 2011 America seems finally to have awakened to the yawning gap between the rich and the rest between the top 1 and everyone else. And youth led protest movements, from the Arab Spring to the Spanish indignados and the Occupy Wall Streeters, have made clear that something is very wrong with the capitalist system.

Signs of the American economy s perilous condition are everywhere from yawning fiscal and current account deficits to plummeting home prices and a feeble dollar. But something that shows up in none of the economic indicators may be driving many of them the deterioration of American management, which is undermining not only many of America s great enterprises, but also its legendary spirit of enterprise.

But real wages climbed 154 for the top 1 of wage earners and 39 for the top 5 , while real wages stagnated for the bottom 20th percentile of workers and fell for the bottom tenth. Indeed, inequality in labor compensation has been the largest driver of yawning income inequality, except at the very top of the income distribution, where capital income has been more important.

Some of the lessons about the need for prudential regulation of the financial system were lost in the Reagan Thatcher era, when the appetite for massive deregulation was created in part by the flaws in Europe s social welfare model. Those flaws were reflected in yawning fiscal deficits, regulatory overkill, and a lack of economic dynamism that led to sclerotic growth then and the eurozone s sovereign debt crisis now.

So the post industrial economy opened up a new chasm in the labor market, between those with stable, high paid, and fulfilling services jobs and those with fleeting, low paid, and unsatisfying jobs. Two factors determined the share of each type of job and thus the extent of inequality produced by the post industrial transition the education and skill level of the workforce, and the degree of institutionalization of labor markets in services (in addition to manufacturing).

The main risk in 2006 is that America s long brewing problems come to a head globally investors, finally taking heed of the large structural fiscal deficit, the yawning trade gap, and the high level of household indebtedness, may pull money out of the US in a panic. Alternatively, rising interest rates and a downturn in the real estate market could so weaken consumer demand that the economy slips into recession, squeezing exporters in other countries that depend on the US market.

Much of the concern over the past few years has centered on America s yawning current account and fiscal deficits, and its effort to get China to let the yuan float more freely against the dollar. China, by contrast, sees its growth as tied to a stable currency, and may not want to introduce a more flexible exchange rate regime, even after the 2.1 revaluation in July, pending alleviation of structural problems for which it is extremely difficult to set a timetable.