Word: laggard
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...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...
Greece but with the U.S. Both Athens and London-the first publicly, the second privately-believe that Washington has been laggard in using its persuasive abilities. Says a high British official...
...perfect job which offers all the qualities of post-revolutionary life as well as tenure. Despite their lack of spine, or rather because of it, like jellyfish, they have declined to be beaten into place in the grim division of labor that has descended on us. They are the laggard remnants of an unruly "new working class" vanguard which has long since marched stiffly and sullenly to take up positions in the new corporate order. As such they are admirable, in a sense, but not enviable. For if the prevailing militant regime of purposive competition seems a bit unstable...