Word: lag
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...film is far from whole. Occasionally, it moves too slowly. Despite its determined timelessness, it suffers from inescapable time lag. The feudal state of the Army has the aspect of ancient history; bombing in World War II was like bombing in no other war before or since. When the novel was published in 1961, its nonviolent stance was courageous and almost lonely. But antiwar films have become faddish: lately, and Catch-22 runs the risk, philosophically, of falling into line behind...
...names pile up. And in the background, the Capitol shining as brightly as ever. I looked to my left, and I saw people who just kept coming, one after another every few yards. Here it was 3:30 a.m., and it seemed a certainty that there would be a lag. But these people just kept coming, and they were to march into view there for another 28 hours without a letup. Each one with a name...
...credited with being first to urge the oil companies last winter to remove lead from gas. Then Henry Ford II made the same point publicly, in an open letter to the presidents of the oil companies. Ford won headlines for doing something about pollution, and G M appeared to lag behind...
Fund directors, however, say that there is still time to catch up to last year's figures before the funds close in June. They attribute most of the lag in numbers of donors and in total donations to the declining stock market...
...send a man into space. At the end of the '60s we have lost our leadership, and the Americans have become the first to land on the moon. Now, at the start of the '70s, we see that having failed to catch up with America, we lag further and further behind...