Word: lagged
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Interest in math and science has been on the decline in the United States. How can we captivate and inspire future generations? -Vince Indriolo, ChicagoThat is an excellent question. We lag behind other countries in our schooling and I think we have to stimulate the political people to appreciate science. That can help make it filter down to parents and school systems and perhaps make this universal throughout the country. It is very crucial. In society there is a fascination with sports, music and Hollywood heroes, but not educated heroes. We need to change that somehow...
...part because 35% of the land on its books is not owned but under "agreement to purchase," according to IPO documents. Sydney-based Macquarie Research criticized the fact that more than half of DLF's land is in New Delhi, Gurgaon or Mumbai--where, some analysts believe, growth will lag smaller cities...
...preparation for the straw poll, the Romney campaign shelled out an undisclosed amount that was still hundreds of thousands more than any other campaign spent. He was also, until recently, the only candidate to invest in television advertising throughout the state. And although he continues to lag behind former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former Tennessee Senator and actor Fred Thompson, and Arizona Senator John McCain in national polls, the decision by all three of those leading candidates to skip the straw-poll left Romney unchallenged for the position of front-runner...
...reasons why people love shopping online, instant gratification isn't one of them. Buyers typically wait days for their packages to arrive, and that lag time gets even longer if you're not home the moment the delivery person rings the doorbell. That may be part of the reason why online shopping, which currently accounts for just 5% of all retail sales in the U.S., is already beginning to stall...
...watch the end of Zodiac on a Singapore-Narita flight, having watched the beginning, I think, on Singapore-Delhi. Books blur into one another until the best answer seems to be to read the novels of Haruki Murakami, which feel like the mellifluous sound of Muzak heard during jet lag, with their floating characters situated in Japan but living in the America or Italy of their heads. Just to make my disorientation complete, I get off a plane in Sydney because we are going to take on passengers from another (canceled) flight, then I get onto it again, because...