Word: lags
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stay with Bond for news in the battle of the sexes, though he tends to lag a bit farther behind the times on this score. His partner in Eyes is (natch) a great beauty, but also (surprise) an archaeologist. Though Melinda (Carol Bouquet) has the annoying habit of never moving her lips when she speaks, she does contribute handsomely to the doings in of the evilsowers. And I even detected--though this may be a mistaken impression--a certain cooling of Bond's ardour for romantic digression. This may be a concession to Moore's advancing years, though...
...allies is stunningly evident. From gliders to missiles, a dozen nations are seriously challenging U.S. technology and salesmanship. Yet the men from Lockheed, Boeing, Martin-Marietta and scores of other U.S. firms were upbeat. The Soviets were quiet, their stodgy aircraft, like the Il-86 transport, displaying a technological lag. And Ronald Reagan's new defense plans and action in lifting Jimmy Carter's "leprosy" policy (U.S. embassies were ordered not to help arms sellers) were a tonic that may nudge the $57 billion industry off a plateau, providing thousands of new jobs. America...
Typically, Manfred Eicher, 35, the founder, manager and premier producer of ECM, will fly his musicians into a Norwegian studio nicknamed the Whale, right in the heart of downtown Oslo. The musicians start to work as soon as they shake off the jet lag. An album usually takes two days to record-a day for each side-with a third day reserved for mixing. Very businesslike, minimal distractions. Oslo is short on hotspots likely to divert attention from the matter at hand. For fun, the musicians trundle off to the Edvard Munch Museum...
...announcing Joshua Nkomo's shift from the Ministry of Home Affairs to the Ministry of Public Service. This was, in effect, a humiliating demotion, since it stripped Nkomo of his control over the national police. Mugabe said that necessary "transformations" in the Home Affairs department "seemed to lag behind expectations, so most of the criticism of the police became criticism of Comrade Nkomo." This, he said, was "completely unjustified...
...reasons for the lag in savings, investment and productivity are numerous and complex. Inflation is a cause as well as an effect. A consumer cannot save if he needs every penny he earns to pay next month's rising rent, food and fuel bills. A businessman is not likely to build a new plant when current high interest rates and the unknowns about the future course of inflation make it virtually impossible to estimate potential profits...