Word: laggard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...creating this painless expansion, Kennedy and Johnson pursued a policy of tax cuts and moderate deficit spending counterbalanced by Government actions to limit wages and prices. To spur laggard capital expenditures, the Government came through with a 7% investment credit for plant and equipment and increased depreciation allowances. New equipment and federal job training improved productivity, slashed costs and kept prices down. In 1964 taxes on individual income and corporate earnings were trimmed. The $14 billion that these tax cuts turned back to consumers and businessmen abruptly boosted the economy and added more than $30 billion to the gross national...
History is even more stern than Emily Post with the hapless laggard. Probably no battle has ever been won by the general who was late. "Time is everything," Lord Nelson said. "Five minutes makes the difference between victory and defeat." The French were kind enough to prove his point a few years later. If the dilatory Marshal Ney had beaten Blucher's Prussians to position at Waterloo, the battle could have ended in a French victory, and Wellington might have taken Bonaparte's lease on the house at St. Helena. Similarly, if Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart had shown...
...Worsthorne argues, the U.S. presence in Viet Nam "may have become more a curse than a blessing, may now actually be doing the cause of South Viet Nam's independence more harm than good." The problem, says Worsthorne, is that American troops-once necessary to inspirit the laggard South Vietnamese-have become dangerously demoralized. "Drug-saturated, mutinous, defeatist, incompetent, they constitute more of a threat to the South Vietnamese than do the Viet Cong," he contends...
...Utah, for example, Law Professor Arvo Van Alstyne is completing a study of tenure that is expected to propose a new code of faculty performance standards, periodic reviews by a faculty committee to check performance, and a top-level ombudsman to hear student complaints of bad teaching. Even if laggard professors could not be fired, they might be required to take refresher courses. Says B.U. President Silber: "One of the most severe penalties you can impose on a faculty member is the intellectual disapprobation of his colleagues...
...integration. In Dallas in 1960, for example, Judge T. Whitfield Davidson, then 83, ruled that a plan promising complete desegregation by 1973 was unacceptable-because the school board was moving too fast. Higher courts reversed rulings in the case at least five times, not an unusual rate for laggard Southern judges, some of whom are still serving as glacially as ever...