Word: behind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russia is still generations behind us with regard to consumption," says Alouishes A. Bergson, professor of Economics, but the U.S.S.R. is making substantial progress in bridging...
While the gap between American and Russion consumption remains huge, Soviet industry is not so far behind that of the United States. Since 1951, Bergson relates, its output has been increasing at a rate of nine per cent annually, about three times quicker than American growth...
...side or the advertisements with their specious economics. The antagonists (as has become the case with many of the world's diplomatic contenders) seem more interested in public relations than specific progress. The issues in the strike have involved wage increases and work rules; the second crystallized union support behind its leadership when economic demands alone seemed insufficient to hold a firm front...
...general technique of Russian research differs radically from that in the United States. For the Soviets, Doty said, comprehensive, systematic exploration largely supplants original thought. This determined, unromantic method has paid off in the study of plastics and molecular physics but the Russians lag behind the United States in chemistry and certain of the more abstract sciences...
Doty, who visited Russia in May 1958 after an invitation from the Academy of Sciences, was impressed by the rapidly rising ability of Soviet scientists. Though he considered them still slightly behind the United States as a scientific nation, he warned that "it is the gradient rather than the level" of study that counts. "Their goals are defined by what the state needs," he pointed out, "and their exhaustive investigations could put them ahead before long...