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...national power increases its demand for cultural specificity decreases. No doubt this dynamic of Americanization or American institutional democratization--if I can call it such--is never perfect at any given point in time: it is always an approximation of a longrun norm or ideal, exhibiting much cultural lag...
...combat this drug lag, Wardell and Lasagna urge several changes. Among them...
...report has found few supporters at the FDA. The agency's current commissioner, Alexander Schmidt, concedes that there is a drug lag between the U.S. and other countries. But he denies that U.S. patients have suffered as a result. "There have been no significant therapeutic breakthroughs in other countries that this country has gone without," says...
...Lag. King's greatest asset is a flair for thinking-and acting-big. With Ali demanding prize money beyond the means of individuals or even corporations, King has made his deals with governments. Shrewd enough to realize that championship bouts featuring Ali are the kind of promotion that developing nations like to stage, King has courted heads of state in Cairo, Tehran, Lusaka (Zambia), Manila and Kuala Lumpur. "The jet lag is so bad," he says, "I eat breakfast 24 hours...
...momentum so necessary for a successful drive, is allowed to proceed at its own pace, and a lag on one special effort does not affect the others." Peterson says that with this flexibility "we can come back at the end of five years and pick up the scraps on those programs that have lagged...