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This month, in a break with recent policy, New York City's school system announced that it will no longer promote students who lag far behind their grade level in reading ability...
White characterized the victory as "convincing" despite the second round lag. "It was really a great last round effort by the team," he said...
WHICH IS TOUGH on sombody 55. And on Riggs the running told. He began to lag approaching net, and fumble easy shots from noman's land. He played for time, pussy-footing between points -- meanwhile, King pushed her pace, hunching up her shoulders to lengthen her stride, and grinned into the camera. By the third set, Riggs was playing like a man being stoned, and his last game was pure throwaway. He slapped and missed two easy forehands, double-faulted at deuce, and on match point stuffed a sure putaway into the net. It was as if he had played...
Caught between steadily rising costs and an equally steady lag in investor interest, the nation's investment brokers constitute an industry that hardly anyone is bullish about. Last week the Securities and Exchange Commission sought to administer first aid in two forms. For the next six months, brokers will be able to raise their commission charges by 10% on small transactions ($100 to $5,000) and 15% on medium-size ones ($5,001 to $300,000). But after April 30, 1975, the SEC ruled, the investment industry must eliminate fixed commissions altogether, forcing brokers to compete freely with...
...Long Lag. One solution would be to have some press conferences devoted to a single subject; last month's session at San Clemente was virtually that, but only because of Watergate and the long lag between meetings. Regularly scheduled sessions-say two a month -would also relieve the pressure to gallop to all points of the compass...