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...causes contributing to the lag stems from housing preferences submitted by the freshman women currently living in the Yard...
Housing officials feel certain that the number of women listing a Radcliffe House as one of their five housing choices will be somewhat greater than the 114 first-choice total when the remaining figures are compiled. But they believe that even the final figures will lag considerably behind the CHUL-stipulated number...
Bucky's girl friend Opal is in worse shape. Poisoned by drugs and suffering from chronic time lag due to constant travel, she can barely distinguish herself from her luggage. Meanwhile, the schlock rock of the '70s goes on. (For a flesh-and-blood reference, see the recent issue of Rolling Stone, in which Drag Star Alice Cooper says: "The sicker all you kids get, the greater the shows we'll have...
...evaluating the lag in Union enrollment, committee members concluded that most students who hesitated to sign pledges would observe the strike once it began...
...Time Lag. Outright forgeries can usually be detected by chemical analysis (use of pigments that had not been invented at the time of the original painting, electronic dating of the wood or canvas or clay). But even the most careful scholarship is uncertain. Says Horst W. Janson, chairman of the department of fine arts at New York University: "Nothing can be taken for granted. There is no such thing as the final word. What you read on a label in a museum hardly ever reflects the latest state of scholarship-there is an inevitable time lag, in part...