Word: lags
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...pair of Harvard economists are examining the career paths of thousands of Harvard alumni to study whether and why women lag behind men in a variety of fields, in a project prompted by both their own scholarly experience and long-standing support from University President Lawrence H. Summers...
Angela Y. Wu ’06, a History of Art and Architecture concentrator, wrote that jet lag likely had an adverse affect on her exam performance...
...poor. And she has been aggressive about spreading that gospel, aiming "to make the stock market the subject of dinner-table conversation in the black community." At Ariel, Hobson launched the nation's first ongoing study of African-American investment behavior, calling attention to her hunch that blacks lag behind whites when it comes to investment, planning for retirement and putting money aside for college. The firm also started the Ariel Community Academy, an inner-city Chicago school that teaches elementary school students how to invest. Hobson takes her stump speech-- essentially a crash course in investment strategy...
This offensive lag came against a UConn defense that surrendered five goals to No. 8 New Hampshire, the Crimson’s next opponent, on Saturday...
...result, the high schools are lavishing attention on ninth-graders because experience shows that incoming students who don't have good study habits and preparation for the academic demands of high school usually lag behind and stay there. Huron High has added classes for middling achievers called Advancement via Individual Determination (AVID), designed for freshmen who enter with a GPA between 2.0 and 3.5 and show the potential to succeed in honors classes. The AVID classes teach them how to take notes and study for exams more effectively, and provide tutoring. Samir Webster, who came to Huron last year with...