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...than 100% to $17 million and U.S. Steel 75% to $56 million. But few steel companies came even within shouting distance of their profits in first-quarter 1960, when steel users bought avidly in the wake of a 116-day strike. And steelmen cautioned that their earnings will surely lag during the current quarter as their customers use up swollen inventories...
...most depressed region in the college survey was the South, where salaries lag as much as 20 per cent behind comparable institutions in the rest of the world...
...correctly observes that classifying a scientific discovery will not prevent its subsequent discovery by the Russians; it merely creates a small time lag between our advance and theirs. The advantage gained is generally too small to be significant, and arms race "gaps" (the bomber gap, the missile gap, the test gap) are political trump...
Inefficiency or malpractice in the implementation of a civil defense program could create "widespread disillusionment with democratic government," the conference warned. Discrepancies between advanced technology and current procedures, or a time lag in transmitting improvements to local groups, as well as outright corruption, could produce dissatisfaction and mistrust...
...over 100,000 ft. into the air and saturating them with more than 200 species of radioactive particles. Depending on wind and other conditions, these particles would fall back in lethal quantities over an area extending perhaps 150 miles from ground zero. As a rough rule of thumb, lag between the bomb's flash and the beginning of fallout might be figured at one minute for each quarter-mile from ground zero; thus, at 30 miles it would be two hours...