Word: lag
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...studies predict that while minority student enrollment may climb to 30 percent, the percentage of minority teachers in the field may lag behind...
...Scores for blacks and Hispanics, despite modest gains, lag 7% to 11% below those for whites...
Authorities still have no promising leads to the identity of the serial murderer who attacked mostly prostitutes and runaways. Their disappearances were sometimes not reported until years after they were killed. The lag time has frustrated investigators, who have spent $13 million in pursuit of the slayer since the first victim was found along the Green River near Seattle in 1982. Police cling to one consoling fact: they have found no victims murdered after 1984. Since such killers rarely quit, police hope this one is either dead or already in prison...
...Universal Studios tour guides translate into German, French, Japanese, Chinese and Spanish the behind-the-scenes stories of the making of such films as King Kong, Psycho and Jaws (to the French speaking, Les Dents de la Mer, or The Teeth of the Sea). Even so, Americans still lag behind Europeans when it comes to learning the languages of tourists from abroad...
Presidential spokesmen sought to minimize the last-minute glitches, which developed as Reagan and his wife Nancy attempted to overcome jet lag and rest up for the start of the summit in Moscow Sunday...