Word: lag
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Under the Verba Report's recommendations, the new associate dean would be a faculty member, and students fear that Spence might appoint someone unwilling to press departments who lag in their recruiting efforts...
...found that students have improved in "their ability to do simple computation, comprehend simple text and exhibit knowledge of everyday science facts." The performance gap between whites and racial minorities seems to be closing, although it remains "unacceptably large." By the end of high school, blacks and Hispanics still lag three to four years behind white students in achievement...
Athletes with more difficult majors are forced to radically redesign their lives. Social commitments lag behind those to athletics and academics...
Final results: two victories, two losses, jet lag and a memorable experience...
...sums are so vast, and so apparently out of line with any foreseeable benefits that the deal might bring to American industry, that they raise deep and disturbing doubts about the direction of U.S. business at a time when many firms lag badly in foreign competition. Seldom since the age of the 19th century robber barons has corporate behavior been so open to question. The battle for RJR Nabisco seems to have crossed an invisible line that separates reasonable conduct from anarchy...