Word: lag
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second half, however, was a different story as Wellesley grabbed the lead three minutes into the action never to be headed again. The visitors were sporting a much tougher defense and their strength off the boards began to dominate play. Radcliffe's rebounding strength began to lag, and both Sue Williams and Cheryl Gelzer were saddled to the bench with four fouls early in the stanza...
Like some other studies, the National Assessment finds the male lead in mathematics "overwhelming." Nine-year-old girls do as well as boys in basic arithmetic but lag later in geometry and exercises dealing with measurement. Strangely, though girls can match boys in arithmetic and are better than boys at reading, they do worse on "word problems" involving simple computations, such as determining the lowest per-ounce price for a box of rice...
...lag-time between Rosovsky's charge and the report's issuance was crucial, the present HDC executives having been elected on an anti-elitist platform, and containing at least five members with ties to drama organizations outside the Loeb...
...national power increases its demand for cultural specificity decreases. No doubt this dynamic of Americanization or American institutional democratization--if I can call it such--is never perfect at any given point in time: it is always an approximation of a longrun norm or ideal, exhibiting much cultural lag...
...given cultural lag is not the decisive feature of the total situation, though in the eyes of the new ethnic militants who insist on a maddening juxtaposition of the past-and-present it appears so. Anyway some cultural lag is functional to the longrun process of Americanization and should not be condemned. I have no doubt that Memorial Church--which Rabbi Gold mistakenly perceives as standing "in the heart of this university"--is one such cultural lag. After all, no small part of the national support (financial and otherwise) which sustains Harvard University is connected to this symbol of Harvard...