Word: laggard
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Though his Administration has been laggard in providing aid for the veterans, President Nixon showed that at least he appreciates them. Said the Commander in Chief in a drum-thumping speech at the National War College: "Because they saw it through, because they did not quit, we were able to negotiate an honorable end to the war at the conference table, which would not have been possible had they not served with distinction and courage to the end."Many Vietvets, however, are now concerned about goals closer to home. A veterans' lobbyist later complained that Nixon "didn...
...words to praise it. R is a "true artist . . . with a diabolically evocative style." Indeed it seems that R's prose has "a richness, an ostensible dash, that caused some of the less demanding reviewers in his adopted country to call him a master stylist." To aid that laggard crowd, Nabokov has provided some blatant examples of the wordplays he is famous for. Proofreading R's new book, he puzzles about an incidental character named Adam von Librikov. Lest anyone miss the point, Nabokov adds, "Or was the entire combination a sly scramble...
...driving force in an otherwise laggard U.S. business recovery, the housing industry is heading toward a record year. Builders, cheered by the temporary freeze on material costs and wages, are counting on the exuberant demand to continue throughout most of 1972. Though the Commerce Department reported last week that housing starts fell in September for the first time in five months, industry leaders remain buoyant. Says Eli Broad, chairman of Los Angeles' Kaufman & Broad, a big home builder: "I still think we're going to reach a record 2,000,000 starts this year...
...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...