Word: lagging
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...utilities lag. Example: Commonwealth & Southern turned in $20,488.698-up nearly $5 million...
...Council had pointed out that most places of entertainment opened at eight, thereby leaving a student no place to go in the time lag after supper, but the Masters pointed out that a couple, having left the House for supper "might as well stay out." To the argument advanced by the Council that the proposed change would not violate the principles already established by the Oxford Card system, the Masters replied merely that--with the College working its way back to its traditional position, no further relaxation was desirable...
...loran is the measurement of this time lag, which the receiver does automatically in micro-seconds (millionths of a second). For each time lag, a special chart shows a "line of position." The plane's navigator knows at once that he is somewhere on this line. Then he tunes in a second pair of master-and-slave stations operating on a different frequency, and gets a second line of position. His location on the chart is the point where the two lines intersect. A skilled operator can complete the whole problem in less than six minutes...
...common law, must grow from unprecedented, bold judicial actions. Said he: "[The defendants] are living symbols of racial hatreds, of terrorism and violence, and of the arrogance and cruelty of power. . . . Must such wrongs either be ignored or redressed in hot blood? . .. [The defendants hope] that international law will lag so far behind the moral sense of mankind that conduct which is a crime in the moral sense must be regarded as innocent...
...communications were not opened, all China would suffer. The great popular migration home would be delayed, galloping inflation would be harder to check, industrial reconstruction would lag. Above all, a bleak, fuelless winter would lie ahead. For North China's railways tap the nation's great coal mines. Only one of these-the Kailan fields, lying on the line between Tientsin and Chinwangtao -was open last week. U.S. planes and Central Government guards were on the alert to bar any Communist attempt to block Kailan shipments...