Word: lag
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Chrysler's strategic problem is twofold: the rising costs of incentives, which now run at an estimated $1,200 per car, and the lag time between its current lineup of cars and the arrival of the L/H. Iacocca's road show is an attempt to prove that the company has a potent strategy and that he is firmly back in control of Detroit's No. 3 automaker. Critics who would dismiss his chances of pulling the company out of the fire this time should try to remember how badly his doubters underestimated the man a decade...
...group has seen its primary mission as working within the party for change, but Shostakovsky does not rule out the possibility that the Platform might become a separate faction if reform should lag. In some ways the rector of the Higher Party School seems like a Martin Luther who has yet to nail his 95 Theses on the door of the Central Committee. Says Shostakovsky: "The policy of centrism and compromise has been exhausted by now. It was always a risky strategy that courted disaster. It is time to pursue a more radical course in transforming society...
...lag is hard enough on humans, but for Homarus americanus it can be deadly. As many as one-fourth of the Maine lobsters on flights to burgeoning markets in Asia die during the long trip, even though they travel in comfy insulated containers. A research team organized by the Lobster Institute at the University of Maine is considering an answer to the problem: a rest stop at a first-class lounge in Hawaii. If they were plunked into a so-called relay pound, the weary crustaceans could stretch their claws and absorb oxygen from Pacific seawater...