Word: lag
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Essex's lab is also working to develop a more sensitive AIDS screening test. The test currently in use screens the blood for antibodies to the AIDS virus. That procedure presents certain difficulties; there is a lag time "between infection and the presence of antibodies of two to three months, but the individual still has the virus," Essex says. "We need to look for earlier markers...
Western Europe will experience a slight lag as well because its manufacturers will have difficulties selling goods to struggling oil-producing countries. Even so, European countries are poised for a quick takeoff. "There should be no major downside risks for Europe, since they are not significant producers of oil," observes Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Ford. Europeans, who have historically paid higher gasoline prices than have Americans, cheer the oil slide as if it were a sporting event with the home team winning. OIL REACHES PREHISTORIC PRICES, exulted Spain's financial daily Cinco Dias...
Lamont and Hilles require professors to get their reading lists in two months before the semester begins--a rule, it appears, that was made to be broken. And because the libraries place all reserve requests in a queue, each request has an automatic lag time of at least a month...
...much as we're attempting to be at market rates, we've tended to lag," Kossan said. This lag occurred because HRE underestimated how much market rents would rise...
Kossan said that the new rent increases will attempt to make up for the "lag" in past years' rents. They will also incorporate an anticipated 8 percent increase in the market rate for the 1986-87 lease year...