Word: catchup
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...parity is not a static condition; it is dynamic," we will go on as we have for the past 38 years playing catchup, until ultimately, inevitably, by accident or design, the U.S. or the U.S.S.R. blows the earth to smithereens...
Perhaps so, but powerful forces other than tight money alone will be working to keep interest rates high, no matter what Volcker does. In large part, the jump in interest rates over the past few years represents a belated catchup by the price of money with the rise of all other prices since the mid-1960s. Through years of high inflation, many interest rates?on mortgages, consumer loans, bank savings deposits?were held down by federal or state controls. Most of these controls have been dismantled...
...college they pick, but whether they can go at all. The aim of the colleges is to move students along so that, by graduation, they have caught up with the rest of the country. Says Tuskegee Dean Walter Sapp: "Yes, we create an atmosphere where a student can play catchup, but we also have people in graduate schools all around the nation." In fact, 24% of black college students go on to graduate school (vs. 33% from white colleges...
Rattled they were Saturday in Philadelphia. After waving goodbye to an early first-half lead, the Crimson spent the remainder of the game playing catchup ball...
With the advent of varsity status, Martin said he will now 'establish a very large catchup recruiting program by contacting the ten best high school volleyball teams in the country...