Word: lag
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...names pile up. And in the background, the Capitol shining as brightly as ever. I looked to my left, and I saw people who just kept coming, one after another every few yards. Here it was 3:30 a.m., and it seemed a certainty that there would be a lag. But these people just kept coming, and they were to march into view there for another 28 hours without a letup. Each one with a name...
...credited with being first to urge the oil companies last winter to remove lead from gas. Then Henry Ford II made the same point publicly, in an open letter to the presidents of the oil companies. Ford won headlines for doing something about pollution, and G M appeared to lag behind...
Fund directors, however, say that there is still time to catch up to last year's figures before the funds close in June. They attribute most of the lag in numbers of donors and in total donations to the declining stock market...
...send a man into space. At the end of the '60s we have lost our leadership, and the Americans have become the first to land on the moon. Now, at the start of the '70s, we see that having failed to catch up with America, we lag further and further behind...
...Naval Research lab in Washington. For six months, they measured the time that elapsed between the tick of the master clock and the corresponding tick of the Cape Fear clock (which was transmitted to Washington by radio). Immediately after sunrise, they found, the Cape Fear clock would begin to lag behind the Washington clock. By afternoon it would just as regularly catch up again. A similar but smaller effect occurred at moonrise...