Word: lag
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...propaganda torch, highlighting the sad fact that the U.S. has no rocket engines to match the feat-and is not likely to have them for four or five years. Even the orbiting last week of two relatively pint-sized Discoverer satellites (XX and XXI) served to dramatize the U.S. lag in the big boost...
...explorations into space, the Soviet Union has been ahead, and it is going to be a major task to surpass them." Echoed Hugh Dryden, deputy administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, who appeared before the House space committee: "You can't buy back four years." The lag, he said, is a matter of "some concern," but the U.S. will now just have to "sweat...
...this scenario (which, incidentally, is typical of some Kahn projections) is the time-lag. By giving the U. S. time to think things over, the Soviets make their point completely, namely that the existing U. S. defense structure simply cannot protect against such an extreme provocation short of a suicide move...
...rest of the Ivy League, however, there has been a considerable drop in the number of prospective students. Yale and Princeton report a decrease of five to ten per cent, while Amherst's applications lag more than 20 per cent behind last year. Cornell was hardest hit of all, with reportedly 3000 fewer applications than...
...personal income, will do the trick. So far, the signs are mixed. Department-store sales have been edging up for several weeks, reached a new high last week for the year. But for four straight weeks they have been running slightly below 1959 levels. Merchants blame part of the lag on unseasonably warm weather, hope the coming of colder weather will stir the consumers...