Word: lag
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chamberlain's makeup artists spent a full two hours applying the dungeon look, and though the actor suffered through some scenes with a bad case of jet lag, no one seemed to notice...
...women, who should have an interest in dispelling the belief that Radcliffe women go on to become only well-educated housewives. Radcliffe women have reportedly left less of an imprint on the public arena than Vassar or Wellesley graduates, but this should not condone the cultural and political lag that characterizes Harvard attitudes...
...Secretary and his entourage of 40 stopped first in Nice to bone up on research materials and let some accumulated jet lag unwind-but a Simon faux pas made the brief stopover more eventful than that. Sunning on the beach with Willard C. Rappleye Jr., editor of the American Banker, he expressed in pungent terms his longstanding opinion of the Shah of Iran * who is pushing for higher and higher oil prices and whose nation was pointedly not among the countries that the Secretary would be visiting. Said Simon: "The Shah is a nut." He later explained that he meant...
...Part of the answer is a lag in prices from farm to supermarket. For example, Arnold Bakers, a New York breadmaker, until recently was paying $13.50 per 100 lbs. for flour under contracts signed last winter and spring -though the immediate-delivery price for flour fell as low as $9.60, reflecting declines in wheat. Also, some agricultural prices have kept on rising: sugar recently hit a record 26? per lb., boosting prices of goods ranging from Life Savers to Kool-Aid soft drinks. But the biggest reason is that "middlemen" (a term covering bakeries, canners, meat packers, supermarket chains...
...Radcliffe eight came in second in its heat, losing to College Boat Club, which rows out of the Penn boathouse. It was a poor start and the team members felt they could have rowed a better race if they weren't still suffering from jet lag, but their performance was sufficient to get them into the finals...