Word: laggards
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Hyland: Many Americans take the view that the West Europeans have been laggard, hesitant and weak, if not in total opposition to American policy. All this has been under the guise of a lot of talk about "special relationships" that they have to protect. The French have been their usual insidious, sinister selves. The Germans have taken comfort in the fact that they've got the French to move three degrees away from their destructive, obstructive policies...
...than America's West European allies. Reason: there had already been strains in the alliance over the issue of how to answer Moscow's new threat in Central Asia. The Carter Administration feels that France in particular, and West Germany to a lesser degree, have been somewhat laggard in their response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. In addition, Washington is concerned about a proposed West European initiative in the Security Council that could lead to a resolution on Palestinian self-determination. Such a move, American policymakers fear, could upset the Egyptian-Israeli negotiations on autonomy...
...literature leaves no doubt that the Soviet Union intends massively to preempt the instant the leadership has arrived at the conclusion that war is unavoidable. In their view, a nuclear first strike plays in modern warfare a role comparable to that performed by rapid mobilization before 1914: the laggard risks to lose at the very outset, no matter how long the ensuing war. This means that a decision to resort to strategic nuclear weapons is not one likely to confront them on its own merits; rather, it will follow from a decision...
...engine over Chicago, the poisons seeping into the Love Canal. The frustrations of economic theory were revealed by the inability of the disciples of John Maynard Keynes, the British economist whose market-manipulating philosophies have dominated policymaking since the 1950s and 1960s, to deal with the stagflation realities of laggard growth, runaway prices and receding productivity in the post-industrial...
...this is a recession, let's have more of it. So joke some shoppers trying to elbow their way through the crowds that are thronging the stores. K mart has rung up a sprightly 13.7% increase in retail sales so far this year, and even laggard Sears, Roebuck reported a 3.7% monthly rise in November, its biggest gain in more than a year. So where is the recession? Like a mugger, it could be lurking around the next quarter if it has not already pounced. Real personal earnings are down nearly 5% from last year, and there are signs...