Word: laggard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brisk upward march of the economy from the nation's worst postwar recession, the relatively free-spending consumer has so far led the way. In marked contrast, spending by businessmen for new plant and equipment, which is critical to sustaining the business upturn, has been notably laggard. True, corporate capital spending is at last increasing, and most experts believe that it will reach satisfactory levels late this year. But others are worried that the outlays are coming too late, and that as the economy speeds up, industrial capacity will run into production bottlenecks and shortages that will kick...
...merciless fight" against profiteers and warned that "readers should not be under the false impression that the problem has been solved." The Kremlin's economic planners need no convincing: Georgia, where much of the people's effort is devoted to nonofficial pursuits, is a chronic laggard among Soviet republics in the official rankings of labor productivity...
...journalists are as critical, recognizing that governments cannot operate without some privacy. The Washington Post, no laggard at uncovering government secrets, expressed mild support for the Ford proposal in an editorial. Said Post Editorial Page Editor Philip Geyelin: "It's not all that chilling. Governments are continually trying to keep people in line, and we keep trying to break through that...
...State Department was laggard too. The resolution would, as Moynihan declared, abandon the U.N.'s "selective morality" and ask for amnesty in all countries, not just in such objects of Third World indignation as South Africa and Chile. But in order for the U.S. not to be accused of selective morality, its delegation first had to be able to vote with the U.N. majority in condemning Chilean human-rights violations. Chile is a sensitive subject for Kissinger; as National Security Adviser he participated in Nixon Administration decisions to undermine former President Salvador Allende. Approval for the U.S. delegation...
Dean Rosovsky issued a letter this month to help bolster laggard alumni contributions to the 1974-5 Harvard College Fund drive...