Word: lag
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...others have a less depressing explanation: that the progress of World War II has been marked by a two-year lag between U.S. and British experience. London hit its market low in the summer of 1940, after the collapse of France. Thereafter its war production drive became singleminded, Throgmorton Street became practically impervious to bad news (including the fall of Singapore), and the market reacted mainly to the compulsion of too much money and too few goods. The U.S. had its Dunkirk at Pearl Harbor, only five months ago, and the same forces are only now beginning to be severely...
...Retailer, therefore, bears the brunt of the whole price-control program. With few exceptions, U.S. retailers were having the horrors last week. Worst blow was that OPA had denied their plea for a "rollback" of ceiling dates that would recognize the lag between rising wholesale and retail prices. Since retail prices in recent months have been rising more sharply than wholesale prices, the lag between them was smaller in March than it had been earlier (when wholesale prices were rising very fast). But retailers maintained that their price level was still some 10% behind their suppliers...
...followed for five days by a submarine, which surfaced at night and set off rocket signals to other U-boats. The castaways knew why they were being followed: the sub wanted to nail the ship that rescued them. They made no signal for help until the submarine began to lag behind. Then they hailed a passing freighter, which picked them up and made a getaway...
...rising market, such as the present, retail prices generally lag behind wholesale prices. (Example: a large department store which sold a popular-priced man's shirt at $1.39 a year ago; today it sells at $1.89, but the replacement stock that the store has already bought will have to sell at $2.19 in order to maintain the same markup-and would sell at that price by June, when earlier stocks are exhausted, if there were no intervening price ceiling.) So how will retailers survive if their margin Is drastically cut by having wholesale and retail prices fixed...
...material never approached by their slower brethren, and the final examinations of the former group are often meaningless to even the best of the students forced to pursue the slower course. In theory the sections of this introductory calculus course are never more than three days apart: actually the lag frequently amounts to more than a month...