Word: lagging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Latin America (a Rockefeller specialty) : In Dallas, he came out for a broad new Latin America program, including "economic union," stepped-up cultural exchange, and "imaginative" measures to deal with Latin America's lag in education and health...
...main limitations of the table is it necessitates (assuming) technological conditions unchanged for the period of the forecast. A large, 450-catagory input-output table takes about two years to complete. This time lag, however, has not proven as serious as critics had predicted. In the United States, calculations based on 1947 figures were found to apply closely to conditions in 1952. Leontief and members of the Project are, however, developing a dynamic model to remove this limitation...
...then some. Congress, in fact, gave him some $806 million more than he asked for. But he could not choose between proliferating, billion-dollar rival missile systems, crack down on interservice rivalry, or explain away the Administration's decision to rely on bomber power and accept a missile lag behind Soviet Russia which may not be closed before 1963-if then...
...necessity of "Outs" in all campaigns, the Democrats were reaching for an issue. In a time of evident prosperity, the "slow corrosion" issue turned prosperity from the world's wonder to a road to wickedness and decadence. But the issue gained strength from general uneasiness about the U.S. lag in space and missilery. Some hard-boiled Democratic pros, mindful of Adlai Stevenson's disaster when he tried to discuss the issue of national "drift" in 1956, were trying to avoid such words as "purpose" and "softness" in favor of Candidate Stuart Symington's line: "The people...
...general technique of Russian research differs radically from that in the United States. For the Soviets, Doty said, comprehensive, systematic exploration largely supplants original thought. This determined, unromantic method has paid off in the study of plastics and molecular physics but the Russians lag behind the United States in chemistry and certain of the more abstract sciences...