Word: sag
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard got little out of the stand when a 19-yd. Duke Millard punt set Columbia up for its first and only points of the day. Against a Harvard defense that was beginning to sag, Conroy used one play to go 43 yards on a bomb to Steve Wallace for a 19-6 score, just two minutes into the final period. Mazur's kick made...
Last week the congressional Joint Economic Committee, of which Senator Bentsen is chairman, began special hearings into the productivity sag. From expert witnesses, the committee heard that despite the recent decline, the U.S. still has the world's highest level of productivity, but the lead is shrinking rapidly. In 1950 it took seven Japanese or three German workers to match the industrial output of one American; today two Japanese or 1.3 Germans can do as well. Last year the Japanese had a productivity increase of 8%; the U.S. gain was only .3%. In this year's first quarter...
...response to the article "Perils of the Productivity Sag" [Feb. 5], it seems that part of the problem is that wages have risen because of union demands, while productivity has dropped. If people were paid for the work they did and not simply for time spent at their places of work, the degree of output per man-hour would rise tremendously because the workers would try to get more done...
...written: Jackie Onassis will become an ambassador. Bralessness will sag in popularity. Kidnapers will threaten Donny Osmond. Dr. Jonas Salk will find a cure for the common cold...
...Omar Khayyám, waved away a dubious bowl of pudding at his wedding breakfast with the exclamation, "Ugh! Congealed bridesmaid!" Ireland is found "so melancholy, so full of the ghosts of feuds and famines, the clouds fly low, the trees sag under the incessant rain, and the very air seems charged and weighed down with a sense of grievance." An Alphabet of Literary Prejudice includes a list of names from the London phone book (among the more notable: Geoffrey Gush, Dr. Fredoon Famrose and Mr. Halfhead...