Word: laggard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Great Dying, paleontologists call it, and with good reason. No event in the fossil record--not even the catastrophe that would kill off the dinosaurs 185 million years later--was more devastating or left a greater mark on the history of life. Not just a few laggard species, but entire communities of plants and animals, even hardy insects, suddenly vanished. Among the casualties: coral reefs and all their inhabitants, dense forests of fernlike trees, giant amphibians and pred atory reptiles, and the last of the trilobites, those hard-shelled marine invertebrates with complex eyes that once dominated the prehistoric oceans...
...have been helpful had he researched his facts first. Would you call former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop an 'obnoxious drunken laggard?" How about IBM Chief Executive Officer Lewis Gerstner? Nationally acclaimed prize-winning author Louise Erdrich? How about former Sen. Paul E. Tsongas (D-Mass.) or Secretary of Labor and former Kennedy School Professor Robert S. Reich? Maybe U.S. News and World Report Economics Editor Susan Dentzer or Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel) are 'drunken laggards.' If not, then surely John Guare, playwright and author of "Six Degrees of Separation" or Tonyaward winning Broadway director Jerry Zaks are looses...
There are so many smart ideas here that the cheesy special effects and sometimes laggard direction are only minor distractions. Space Traders might not have been right for Rod Serling, but Jonathan Swift would have loved...
...from his well-connected hosts. A month earlier, he had traveled deep into the Ural Mountains, driving over forest roads not shown on any map, following a trail of whispered rumors that a cache of gem- quality stones was up for grabs. A group of miners, fed up with laggard paychecks, had supposedly been holding back emeralds in hopes of finding a private buyer...
...Jordan, a partner at the New York City investment firm Clayton Dubilier & Rice, to succeed outgoing chairman Paul Lego. Former Union Pacific chairman Michael Walsh replaced James Ketelsen at Tenneco, a Houston-based auto-parts, shipbuilding and natural-gas conglomerate. Outsider Stanley Gault left retirement to take charge of laggard Goodyear. And Lawrence Bossidy, a General Electric veteran was recruited for the top job at Allied Signal, whose business supplying components to the aerospace industry was in a downdraft...