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...what about issues that happen to fall outside traditional partisan ! agendas? Politicians don't act; they react. So it's not surprising that there should be a lag between a problem's first appearance in fact and in someone's stump speech. New issues have indeed been able to make their way into the campaign. Neither drugs nor the environment was a deciding factor in any recent presidential race. But after a year of national concern about crack wars, followed by a summer of worry over the greenhouse effect and kindred ecological disasters, Manuel Noriega has become the favorite foreign...
Robert H. Scott, vice president for finance, says that one of the major sources of tuition jumps at Harvard and elsewhere is a historic lag in salary increases. "Universities tend to change much more slowly than the outside world," Scott says. "During the periods of high inflation in the late 1970s, faculty salaries did not increase. We are correcting for that...
...Soviet surface navy, by contrast, continues to lag far behind Western fleets. High operating costs and wear and tear have forced Soviet ships to spend 85% of their time in port, compared with 66% for U.S. vessels. Moscow has severely curtailed Pacific-fleet activity since 1984. "There's no doubt that the Soviet navy is deploying markedly less," says Harlan Ullman, an expert on Moscow's fleet at Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies. "Signs support the thesis that they are changing their strategy...
...studies predict that while minority student enrollment may climb to 30 percent, the percentage of minority teachers in the field may lag behind...
...Scores for blacks and Hispanics, despite modest gains, lag 7% to 11% below those for whites...