Word: lag
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mental retardation. Doctors have long suspected that maternal malnutrition was responsible for low birth weight among some babies born at term. A recently released British study has shown that these babies are likely to lag behind their heavier contemporaries when they get to school. Columbia's Winick says that 80% of all brain growth takes place between conception and the age of two; growth that fails to take place during this period because of either fetal or infant malnutrition does not take place...
...mention the matter of this time gap between my writers and my readers not to push the Voice deadlines to publication, but rather to explain my time lag when I look of supposedly "New" pictures like The King of Marvin Gardens...
...past two months, including more than 4,500 civil servants who were fired from their jobs on charges of corruption and disloyalty, and wealthy oligarchs who were financially hurt by the President's economic measures. There is as yet no common focal point for resistance, but if reforms should lag the Filipinos' patience with dictatorial rule could come to an abrupt...
...Terriers did not take advantage of the obvious lag in the Crimson defense after the goal, and took a scant 1-0 margin into the halftime break...
...between science and state have at times been painful for Soviet researchers. Not many years ago, party ideologues were denouncing cybernetics, modern genetics and even certain aspects of Einsteinian relativity as bourgeois theories that were contrary to Communist orthodoxy. In fact, one reason for the U.S.S.R.'s continuing lag in computer technology is that party pundits once argued that computer-controlled devices and other automated machinery would interfere with the dignity of labor and rob workers of their jobs. Despite such ideological hurdles, however, Soviet scientists have in recent years made remarkable progress...