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...Another glitch was timing. The quarantine measures did not go into effect until March 31, three days after they were announced. That lag proved crucial. In the interim, SARS cases at Amoy Gardens soared from seven to 213, and before a lockdown could be implemented there, 113 families living in the complex packed their bags and fled. Instead of separating them from the rest of the city, health officials lost track of them...
...current governor has exhausted virtually all of them. Over the past five years, Hayami has consistently kept interest rates at nearly zero in a desperate bid to get people spending. Money in Japan is practically free for anyone who wants to put it to work, yet growth continues to lag. If monetary policy were going to ignite inflation, it would have started to work a long time...
...bold new world were making their far-out forecasts, other participants in a conference that marked the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the double helix sounded much more skeptical notes. They warned that as futurist Arthur Clarke once remarked, short-term predictions about technological advances often tend to lag far behind predicted timetables. As an example, composer and visual artist Jaron Lanier cited problems that still plague even our simplest computer programs. "Software is still software," he said, openly questioning its ability to handle increased complexity that all the projected advances would require...
Last week’s announcement that Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) has postponed the much needed renovations to Quincy, Dunster and Mather dining halls ensures that many undergraduates will continue to eat—or not, as the case might be—in facilities that lag far behind the rest of Harvard...
Despite the 21-hour lag in reporting the results, the election went off much more smoothly than the general council elections in October, when administrative and technological problems delayed voting for two days and some students were unable to cast ballots...