Word: lag
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps, the best way to solve the adult literacy problem is by prevention--with better instruction and services for all children, and particularly for those that tend to lag behind. We need to provide help to the millions of children who have special problems in learning to read and who tend to remain behind in reading and related academic subjects during elementary and high school...
Many bodily states and physical characteristics which are unwanted or uncomfortable can now be altered by medical means: an unattractive nose, baldness, small breasts, infertility, sexual dissatisfaction, motion sickness, jet lag...
Charles Schultze, a senior fellow at Washington's Brookings Institution, was slightly less troubled by the recent trade data. He countered that in view of the long lag between a falling dollar and an improvement in exports, there was no reason to expect the trade deficit to have fallen very much by now. In any event, the majority of the board members agreed that the trade gap would surely begin to narrow by year's end. "If something doesn't turn around soon, then we don't know anything," said Alice Rivlin, director of economic studies at Brookings...
Just the other day, scientists made a great discovery: that exposure to controlled amounts of light can counter the effects of jet lag. The media pounced on the results and by the end of the day, nearly every major radio station in Boston had broadcast the miraculous discovery. "No more jet lag," the announcers promised...
Although jet lag is only a minor discomfort to most people, it is a perfect example of media-distorted science. Far from heralding a new discovery, this latest announcement shows only how far from a cure for jet lag the scientific world is. One study, one woman, worth little more than one minute's mention on the radio and television news...