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How could an agency so quickly transform from a leading light of public administration into a laggard?
Although owners tried to force the laggards to pay their debts, there were two factors working against them.
Significant environmental gains look to be achievable simply by moving environmental laggards toward the policy approaches of those at the top of the performance ladder.
Those who are slowest to adopt are called laggards.
The international uncontrolled leakage and spillover of technological knowledge would benefit the technological strategy of laggard countries, based upon fast imitation and re-engineering.
And, like a wartime convoy of ships, the mission is not complete until the slowest (author) arrives (produces his/her text), unless the laggards are abandoned.
This type of benchmarking can be seen as leading to a subjective perceived sense of urgency, where countries that have not adopted reforms 'learn' they are laggards.
To put it simply, the good performers are being penalised while the laggards are being rewarded.
But wherever opportunity has arisen we have not been laggard in playing our part.
All that we hear about is legislation to compel the laggards to come up to the standard of the good authorities.
Will he bring that home to the laggard authorities?
Many railways have adopted this scheme, but there are, unfortunately, other railways that are laggards.
We may have been in the negotiations and the discussions, but we have been the laggards rather than the leaders.
It is the laggard with whom we are concerned.
I am pressing the laggards to improve their performance.