Word: lags
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...currencies since early 1985, is expected to help reduce the trade deficit by making imports more expensive and American goods cheaper abroad. A turnaround in trade has been surprisingly slow in coming, but economists point out that changes in currency values usually affect trading patterns only after a long lag...
Bright light in measured doses can reset the body's biological clock, promising possible relief for jet lag, sleeping disorders or night-to-day shift changes, researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital said yesterday...
...debate with the front-runner. Kennedy leads the polls, which give him about a third of voter support. Other voters appear to be split among the 10 remaining candidates. Melvin H. King and State Sen. George Bachrach are tied for second place, while other candidates lag behind...
...this imaginative travel, both abroad and through time, is leaving you with jet lag, check out Anth S-15, "Introduction to Archaelogical Research in the Field." Students will get hands-on digging experience in Harvard Yard...
Sometimes the laws simply lag behind the times. In 1979 the Labor Department, backed by unions, sued a Vermont skiwear maker who employed women to knit in their homes. The department charged the company with violating minimum-wage provisions. The law under which the department acted was passed in 1942 to prevent the exploitation of children and sweatshop workers in city tenements. The women in Vermont prefer working at home, where they can be with their children and do not have to travel to a factory, especially in winter over icy roads. Finally, the Labor Department rescinded...