Word: lagged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...noted, the public has been thrown into its annual dither by the 1958 automotive barges. This reaction seems particularly inappropriate in view of our current technical and political lag behind the chromeless Russians. It is high time to reappraise ourselves in the light of the world around us, with a little less emphasis on bubble windshields and fins...
Christian A. Herter, Jr. '41 last night blamed the "lack of foresight" in the Truman administration for America's current lag in missile development...
...Eisenhower will take a more realistic and explicit stand and if the people will make the sacrifices such a stand demands, there need be no more lag in our technology or our teaching...
MOSCOW, Nov. 6--Nikita Khrushchev and Mao Tse--tung made a double-barreled attack today on the United States, gibing at its lag on launching Sputniks and accusing it of plotting trouble all over the world. Khrushchev and Mao spoke here in ceremonies marking the 40th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution...
...many countries, such as the U.S. and France, the growing practice of tying wage rates to the cost of living, either by government decree or union-employer contract, gives speed and added momentum to the wage-price spiral. Formerly there was a time lag before wages adjusted to prices, during which time the price rise might be reversed, making a wage rise unnecessary. Today the process is automatic. One country questioning the practice is Finland. There escalator wages are considered a major cause of the inflation that is so severe that the Finmark had to be devalued on Sept...