Word: laggard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eleven Languages. Despite its excesses, Powell's campaign does make one legitimate point. Today's overcrowded, economically laggard Britain can no longer afford to make good on the old colonial "myth that we wrote into law" and grant entrance to every Commonwealth emigrant who seeks to settle there. It is a realization that both major British parties share; in fact, under a 1962 law, immigration is already severely limited. It is restricted mainly to persons whose relatives already reside in Britain and to those who have received official work permits, which are issued at the rate of about...
...billion spent on the nation's space effort in the past decade. Nor could Apollo's galactic galleon have ventured forth without the knowledge amassed by the earlier astronauts, from Alan Shepard and John Glenn on, who dared brutal hazards aboard relatively primitive craft in the laggard race to launch Americans into space. In large measure, too, the superb functioning of Apollo 8 was a result of heartbreak...
...sent questionnaires to bishops' conferences, asking for opinions on how the session should be organized. Unquestionably, one issue that will be raised is the timing and content of a second major statement on birth control, which the Pope also promised last week. Thanks to the Vatican's laggard communications methods, his encyclical Humanae Vitae was released to the press before most of the world's bishops had received their copies. Its teaching, moreover, disturbed a number of national hierarchies, which subsequently modified its harsh condemnation of contraception as an absolute moral evil. The new encyclical, many bishops...
...over three years) between Rootes Motors and two unions. She also hopes to encourage companies to establish management-labor committees on productivity. Her plan has some merit: British productivity has for years been the despair of economists, who equally blame rigid labor attitudes and casual management policies for the laggard pace of modernization in industry...
...haggard, laggard spy, Harvey is a stereotypical pawn of the politburo; as his most persistent bedmate, Mia Farrow is a soft sprite whose eyes are larger than her role. The stars are outshone by the supporting players, including Tom Courtenay as a psychotic British agent and Per Oscarsson as his junkie Russian counterpart, hopelessly in love with the heroin. Fortunately, they give Aspic some flavor as it moves toward a credibly tragic end, when Harvey suspects the game is up and utters the burnt-out lament: "I feel like a whore in a creaking...