Word: lag
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Suffering from the wear of the long weekend, added to a little bus lag, the intrepid Crimson travellers played sloppyball in the first half, allowing the obviously-inferior Wheaton squad to stay within range...
...taxes. Al Ullman, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, prefers a tax credit equal to 25% of the wages of new employees, up to $4,200 per worker. Presumably this would induce businesses to hire more people, but it would not encourage capital spending, which continues to lag. "We're all in favor of getting unemployment down," says Beryl Spnnkel, executive vice president of Harris Trust & Savings Bank in Chicago and a member of the TIME Board of Economists. "But the question is: Are we going to get it down in the long run by encouraging investment...
Start-up time is another problem. Though the Government requires that construction begin within 90 days of funding approval, the lag between presidential initiative and groundbreaking is much longer. Before the $2 billion in public works grants could be dished out, the Commerce Department's Economic Development Administration had to sift through 24,000 project applications to select 2,000 winners...
Most officials at the school blame the lag on a controversy last spring over the claims of Bernard D. Davis '36, Lehman Professor of Bacterial Physiology, that medical schools admit and graduate minority students with substandard qualifications...
...seize the initiative. In a surprisingly harsh attack on Premier Yitzhak Rabin, Tel Aviv's popular afternoon daily Yidiot Aharonot portrayed "Sadat, the tongue-tied illiterate" as "setting the world's imagination on fire," while Israel's leaders "with their perfect English" always seem to lag far behind. Concluded the editorial: "Would that we had such boors" as Sadat. Rabin indicated that he was ready to negotiate with Arab leaders, but otherwise the response from Israeli officials was skeptical and even derisive in tone. In the U.N. Assembly debate on Palestine, Israeli Ambassador Chaim Herzog spoke contemptuously...