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Heath cited statistics indicating that it will be at least 40 years before Europe catches up economically with the United States, and he suggested that it would probably take a good deal longer even than that. Heath placed much of the blame for this lag on the "economic myopia" of European industrialists who fail to see beyond their own countries' borders...
Only in the matter of color does the BBC lag behind the U.S. Colorcasting will begin on a small scale on one of the BBC channels this fall, but it will take another three years or so before British color programming will rival America's. Apart from that, the BBC, with its emphasis on performance rather than sales, can teach its old colonies a thing...
...Analytical Lag." Settling into a witness chair before Proxmire's Senate-House Joint Economic Committee last week, Fowler flailed away with unaccustomed vigor at almost every target in-and out of-sight. As for economists who have lambasted him and President Johnson for first not raising taxes and now for asking that they be hiked, Fowler accused them of "suffering from an analytical lag that has them currently applying their calipers to conditions of a year ago." He rapped "bank letters notable for consistency if not accuracy." He scoffed at "herd-thinking, Monday-morning quarterbacks," and skeptics...
...congenital weakness in the ship. Beyond that, it will take months to get the new capsule thoroughly tested and in position atop her Saturn 1-B. The earliest possible date that Apollo 204 could be rescheduled is late summer. Nevertheless, though the entire moonshot schedule will lag far behind expectations, there is no possibility that it will be canceled...
...accelerate production. In September, the company reported nine-month losses of $16.4 million. And despite a record November output of twelve commercial jet transports worth $38 million, Douglas is four months behind in its delivery dates, slipping further because of continuing shortages of skilled aircraft workers and a lag in deliveries of jet engines and other items from outside suppliers. The marriage Mr. Mac pines for would neatly couple Douglas' essentially commercial output with a McDonnell product line that is mostly military, under a McDonnell management team that is highly regarded throughout the industry...