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...records are being classified in groups still quoted at the old prices, the price cuts will have only a temporary effect, the distributors said. Cambridge merchants reported only a small rise in sales, and blamed examinations for the lag...
Boston College capitalized on a third-period lag in the hockey team's aggressiveness to score two quick goals and edge the Crimson, 4 to 3, last night before a screaming crowd of 4,600 at the Boston Garden...
...West Germans have so far received their share of the nation's phenomenal comeback. Wages lag behind increasing productivity; and for all their hard work, German workers eat less, drink less, and drive fewer cars than their neighbors in Britain and France. Overall German living standards are officially calculated as 15% lower than the French...
...quest for money to support a scholar's project is often more tiring and time consuming than the actual research. Strangely enough, charitable foundations often award liberal grants to large groups, while rejecting support for small scale investigations. The unfortunate result is that many of the University's projects lag because modest sums of money are unavailable for basic equipment. According to the warning of the special Faculty Committee for the Behavioral Sciences, financial problems cripple the younger scholars particularly, for their work is usually not covered by large grants...
...Stassen argument assumes that the U.S. knows better than the Russians what the Russians really need. Tractors are taken off the embargo list on the ground that Russia produces a lot of them. But last week Moscow's Pravda was bitterly complaining that lagging Russian tractor production was grievously hurting the program of farm expansion. Every tractor shipped to Russia will help make up this lag and could also release Russian capacity for military tank construction...