Word: lagging
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...Pilot Captain Mark (Pitbull) McDowell, 26, and weapons-systems officer Captain Thomas (Lag) Gramith, 27, died in the first crash of an Air Force fighter in Afghanistan since the war began more than eight years ago. Coming near the end of a four-hour combat flight, the crash appears to have been the result of a series of steps, each insignificant in and of itself, but which in combination created a cascade of disaster...
Research has shown that in the long run, immersion programs can provide cognitive benefits, including more flexible, creative thinking. Though students from the programs lag for a few years in English, by fifth grade they perform as well as or better than their monolingual peers on standardized reading and math tests. For multicultural families, the psychological boost can also be important. Lueth, a former teacher and manufacturing executive, co-founded the school as a way to expose her adopted Chinese daughter Lucy to her native culture. Lucy used to squirm when cousins asked why her skin color was different from...
...Second of all, I think that it’s a crime that 100 percent of colleges and universities don’t have a very structured sexual education program, and as Harvard is a leading university in the world, it’s just really unfortunate that they lag behind in that area...
...following the end of the Obama Administration's Cash for Clunkers incentive program in August. Ford--the only Detroit automaker to avoid bankruptcy and federal bailouts--reported $1 billion in third-quarter profits, helped in large part by an increase in market share as Chrysler's sales continued to lag. GM, the nation's largest car manufacturer, posted its first year-over-year monthly sales gain in 21 months, selling 177,603 vehicles last month, up 5.3% from October...
...just part of the reason why even incremental strides toward eradicating gender inequity should be hailed. But while more than two-thirds of the 115 countries covered in the report since its inception in 2006 have posted gains-particularly in educational attainment and quality of health-females worldwide still lag far behind in economic participation and political empowerment. The report underscores yet again that while women have won critical battles in the struggle for equality, the war is far from over...