Word: lags
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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exactly right when he said, The economist's lag is the politician's nightmare.' " TIME'S cover story this week analyzes both lag and nightmare...
According to the commission, Government pay scales, particularly those for executive-level jobs, lag far behind their approximate counterparts in private industry. The commission has proposed to President Carter substantial salary increases for all branches of Government. The panel recommended that the highest ranking officials, including Cabinet members, earn $95,000, rather than the current maximum of $69,630. For officeholders just below the highest echelons, the commission proposed raises averaging $23,000. In addition, the commission urged that Representatives and Senators, who now earn $60,662, get a raise of nearly $25,000, and that Associate Justices...
Roberts nipped Dartmouth's Jim Chapman in the 200 individual medley. The Dartmouth swimmer, who teams with identical twin Tim and older brother Bill to give the Big Green credibility, led coming out of the turn on the freestyle leg, but began to lag in time for Roberts to pull out in front...
...bloated arms budget not only threatens the quality and effectiveness of America's armed forces; in an era of accelerating inflation and tax-cut mania, it provokes justified fears of a "hyper-inflation" that would do more than any lag in missile production to erode American power. And if President-elect Reagan tries to dodge this specter by cutting giant swaths in social spending to make up for the tax cuts and the arms budget, the resulting domestic decay and turmoil would prove far more costly and damaging than any "perceived loss of military parity." And the American society that...
...Ptolemy, one of the greatest of the Greek astronomers, wanted nothing more than to explain the eccentric wanderings of the five known planets: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Why, for example, did Saturn seem at times to forge ahead of Jupiter in the sky, and at other times lag behind it? To fit this movement into the prevailing earth-centered view of his day, Ptolemy assembled meticulous records of planetary movements. In A.D. 140, he made a good guess about Saturn. Because of its slow pace, he deduced that it lay in the most distant of the heavenly spheres...