Word: laggard
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...kaleidoscopic Christmas displays began to blink on at stores along the main streets of the nation's cities last week, the mood of the merchants was anything but festive. Downtown retailers are hoping for a holiday buying spree to offset a year of laggard sales and inflation-riddled earnings. Economists are hoping for consumer spending to be a strong force in revitalizing the economy. The prospects for the near future are not promising...
ONLY last year it seemed to many Britons that their long-sought economic turn-around was finally at hand. The balance of payments showed a handsome surplus, foreign debts declined, and even the country's laggard industrial productivity gave signs of recovery. The euphoria turned out to be shorter than an English summer. Britain is once again tumbling into one of the periodic economic crises that have made the country the chronic invalid of Europe...
...Avon Products, Walt Disney Productions, Iowa Beef, National Cash Register, Telex, Texas Instruments and Xerox. At week's end the Government reported signs that the economy was picking up: industrial production and personal income climbed in July, pretax corporate profits barely declined at all in the second quarter and laggard statistics showed that the gross national product rose a bit more than had been calculated earlier. The Dow-Jones average reacted by registering a feeble 31-point gain on Friday...
...report, outside agitators were not significantly involved, and no new laws are necessary to prevent disruption. Marijuana laws should be relaxed, said the Commission, student participation increased and the voting age lowered. Last year Commission Chairman Charles D. Henderson, a Republican state assemblyman, helped to draft a law compelling laggard college authorities to maintain order and denounced S.D.S. as "Students for Demolishing Society." Last week his prologue to the report sounded a far calmer note. "While few may want to admit it," he wrote, "the dissent of youth may have done more for higher education than any legislative body, offices...
Eleven Languages. Despite its excesses, Powell's campaign does make one legitimate point. Today's overcrowded, economically laggard Britain can no longer afford to make good on the old colonial "myth that we wrote into law" and grant entrance to every Commonwealth emigrant who seeks to settle there. It is a realization that both major British parties share; in fact, under a 1962 law, immigration is already severely limited. It is restricted mainly to persons whose relatives already reside in Britain and to those who have received official work permits, which are issued at the rate of about...