Word: lags
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Women, especially those in some Muslim countries, lag far behind men in political empowerment and economic participation, despite nearly equaling men in access to education and health, according to a recent study by researchers including Harvard Kennedy School professor Ricardo Hausmann...
...longing waltz, a confident tango-based string passage, and a frenetic, animalistic segment reminiscent of a snapshot from Salvador Dali’s surrealist portfolio. But the transitions between McCusker’s creative motifs seemed unsteady at times, as the dancers’ changes in character seemed to lag during these moments. The occasional shaky turns and a lighting scheme that sometimes masked the dancers’ facial expressions did little to detract from the overall performance, which ended with a rhapsodic chorus of movement.The lingering radiant mood “Braid” created immediately dissipated as performers...
It’s been 36 years since Title IX. Since this monumental piece of legislation, women’s collegiate athletics has fought and struggled to reach the position it has today. But sometimes, women’s sports still lag behind—in terms of attendance, campus support, and prominence. For Harvard women’s soccer, however, all that changed on Saturday. In front of a packed Ohiri Field, with a throng of shirtless men cheering on, the Crimson played in one of the greatest Ivy League matches in the program’s history, winning...
...greens fought hard to mandate an increase in the CAFE standards. They won a half-victory - the 2007 energy bill gradually raises the CAFE standard for cars to at least 35 m.p.g. by 2020. That's the first mandated increase in two decades - but the U.S. standards still lag behind those of Europe and Japan, and barely keep pace with China's. And, yet, that increase - against which foot-dragging U.S. automakers fought hard, complaining about the cost of meeting higher fuel efficiency standards - required compromises, which forced the NHTSA to keep using the old rules. "It's a shame...
...covering a breaking crisis isn't easy, especially for book publishers, as editors call for rewrites or dramatic changes in the publishing lag time. "There seems to be two approaches: do it quickly or wait and take the longer-term view," says Will Weisser, associate publisher of Portfolio, a Penguin imprint, who says most of their business authors are being asked to expedite books already under way. One is Eric Janszen, whose The Post Catastrophe Economy, a historical account of the economy and where it is headed, was supposed to be published in August 2009. With the crisis deepening, Portfolio...