Word: lags
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...NIH’s new policy may not have much practical significance for many scientific researchers, especially because of the 12-month lag time prescribed by the new policy, according to Casey...
...still the top-rated news channel, but there are signs it's plateauing. Its ratings started to lag in 2006, and in February, CNN's prime time (boosted by several presidential debates) beat Fox among 25-to-54-year-olds for the first time since 2001. (CNN and TIME are owned by Time Warner.) Maybe even more galling, the network has lately faded in the ephemeral category of buzz. MSNBC--with far fewer viewers--has been the political-media obsession of the 2008 primary, largely because of feuds between the Clinton campaign and the network for its perceived pro-Obama...
...season openers in Tokyo, the third time Major League Baseball (MLB), the U.S. sports association, has staged such an event in the last eight years. When the second game (which the A's took 5-1) was over at 9:51 p.m., the two teams, barely recovered from jet lag from the trip over, hopped a bus for nearby Haneda International Airport and a pair of all-night 11-hour flights across the Pacific...
...problem with a recession is that due to a lag in the data, you may not know you're in one until it's over. The most interesting aspect of the "R" word as it manifests itself in the form of Internet searches is that despite all of the media attention focused on our worsening economy, most consumers don't understand exactly what a recession...
...were not Oscar worthy? The film has the cleverest plot, the most literate dialogue and the best acting and musical score, all while offering hilarity and heartbreak, romance and cold calculation. It succeeds marvelously in every way. As for Paltrow, if talent were possessed of speed, light itself would lag behind her. She gave breathtaking performances as Lady Viola and Thomas Kent in Shakespeare in Love, and she got only one Oscar for it? What was the Academy thinking? Alan B. Posner, Royal Oak, Mich...