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...what the spokesmen termed a "bureaucratic lag" in the withdrawals, the actual U.S. Army strength increased by 100 men in the week ending last Thursday. It was the first rise in the number of soldiers in Vietnam since the beginning...
...camera, about 45? per picture for the film. Any production delays might prove enormously costly, since sales of Polaroid's more expensive current models ($110 to $175) undoubtedly will trickle off until the new product is available. In an effort to prevent such a sales lag, Polaroid has refused to provide any pictures or drawings of the new camera, and some of Land's closest advisers urged him to withhold last week's public viewing. However, over the years Land has established an exceptionally close rapport with his stockholders -they once loyally broke into applause when informed...
While girls outdo boys verbally, they often lag behind in solving analytical problems, those that require attention to detail. Girls seem to think "globally," responding to situations as a whole instead of abstracting single elements. In the "rod and frame test," for instance, a subject sits in a dark room before a luminous rod inside a slightly tilted frame, and is asked to move the rod to an upright position. Boys can separate the rod visually from the frame and make it stand straight; girls, misled by the tipped frame, usually adjust the rod not to the true vertical...
...important influence on the economy, and they feared that a continuation of the summer-fall Federal Reserve tightness would cripple any chance for a strong advance in 1972. In their view, the board's shift came in the nick of time-or perhaps not quite. Some expect the lag effect of the wide 1971 swings in money-supply growth to cause irregular wobbles in the economy this year...
Monetarist Beryl Sprinkel believes that the lag effect of the extremely tight money policy pursued by the Federal Reserve in the second half of last year will "knock a few billion dollars off the G.N.P. in 1972." Despite these caveats, most board members agree that the economy should pick up strongly in the months ahead-if only because of the stimulative effects of the Administration's big election-year budget deficit. One early sign: the unemployment rate dropped slightly to 5.9% last month...