Word: lags
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...steel, just about anything made in Japan, to cite some particularly contentious items) over exports (farm products, jet planes, computers are major ones), is heading toward a record $150 billion this year. That is nearly four times what it was as recently as 1981. The surge in imports and lag in exports are beginning to hold back the whole economy. Output of goods and services is growing at a rate of around 2% this year. That is much slower than it would be if the U.S. share of domestic and export markets were the same as it was even...
...immediate crew is Vice President of Alumni Affairs Fred L. Glimp '50. Having just completed Harvard's record-setting $350 million capital fund drive last winter, Glimp now has the even more difficult task of maintaining good alumni relations and supervising fund-raising efforts during the lag period after alumni have been drained...
Social assimilation may lag behind political participation, since it is easier to vote than face possible backlash by moving into an Anglo neighborhood. Moreover, Hispanics can remain in ethnic enclaves even as they move up economically. The bigger communities in fact have begun to spawn middle-class suburbs. Sweetwater, Fla., in Dade County, is a city of solid ranch-style homes with red tiled roofs and, frequently, Buicks and Cadillacs * parked in the driveways; it is populated primarily by Hispanics...
Five of the six essays included were written in 1984 at the latest. This lag is not surprising, given the time it takes to produce such an attractive and largely error-free publication. More notable is the exception to this time frame a quite excellent paper on the fat Middle Ages. Interestingly, the paper was handed in January to Professor Ozment, identified by the Crimson as a major source of funding for the Forum (and identified in the magazine's acknowledgements only by his administrative title, Dean for Undergraduate Education). The President and Fellows of the Forum would do well...
...compensate for gaps in the conventional curriculum. General Electric's manager of management education, James Baughman, for one, says, "There is vast illiteracy on business-school faculties" in both the mechanics of advanced technology and its management implications. Says a Texas Instruments executive: "As technology changes, universities tend to lag one to three years behind what's happening in the workplace...