Word: lag
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leadership has set a goal of producing 400 million tons of wheat, rice and other grains by 1985 and for achieving substantial agricultural mechanization by 1980. Both goals seem too ambitious. Though land in China is intensively cultivated and Chinese farmers are known for their innovation and diligence, yields lag far behind those of other countries. Peking has conferred with foreign farm experts, including U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Bob Bergland, about new seed varieties, the use of insecticides and the exchange of specialists. While the Chinese have made some progress toward mechanization, they need more than 1 million additional tractors...
...seconds, only 48 seconds slower than the Crmson eight-man elite eight. Doug Wood, who stroked the mixed eight, and rowed in the other boat, said yesterday that the mixed boat felt faster for all but a few short patches in the three miles; it didn't lag between strokes as it had sometimes in practice...
...idea that has already surfaced is to copy the Japanese by establishing research institutes within the various branches of American industry that could supply information on basic research to participating companies. Thinking along that line, the Canadians, who have also been suffering from an R. and D. lag, plan to set up five innovation centers at universities, which will supply help to industry. In the U.S., such research-sharing schemes generally have been discouraged by antitrust law. But the Commerce Department is now consulting with Justice officials about devising programs that would further the cause of American...
...three days, Vice President Mondale worked Capitol Hill, although he was bleary-eyed from the jet lag of his weekend trip to Rome for the installation of Pope John Paul I. He even sandwiched in an hour of phone calls between meeting Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin at Andrews Air Force Base. Energy Secretary James Schlesinger buttonholed Senators as they went in and out of the chamber. At one point, he chased Missouri Republican John Danforth up the stairs, then lost him in the maze of third-floor corridors...
...only known victim is Janet Parker, 40, a medical photographer. She developed fever and a rash in early August, but two weeks passed before her illness was diagnosed as variola major, the severe form of smallpox. The time lag is understandable. There have been no smallpox deaths in Britain for five years, and doctors rarely see the disease...