Word: lags
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...user of e-mail he’s been very in touch with students,” says Associate Dean of the College Georgene B. Herschbach. “I tend to get to my desk earlier in the morning than he does. If there’s a lag time, it’s between five and six in the morning...
...this is a new discipline, but there seems to be an institutional lag here,” Love says. “Other institutions have made this a priority and Harvard...
...fighting terrorism and arms control. There also remains what Coit Blacker, a Stanford professor and close friend of Rice's, calls "the elusive promise of economic cooperation." Putin is beginning to allow foreign access to Russia's vast petroleum reserves, but trade and investment in other sectors will lag as long as the nation's business laws remain inscrutably complex and arbitrarily enforced...
...body is chaired by the Archbishop of Birmingham, the Most Reverend Vincent Nichols, who believes that "We were behind with our understanding of pedophilia." He acknowledges that "the learning curve over the past 15 years has been very steep," but is sure that the new body will "not lag behind best practice, and in fact be a model for it." Now the French church has created a consultative committee on sexual abuse against minors and has taken its first action: advising the removal of Father Gérard Mercury from his parish in Bordeaux after he had been convicted...
Like most urban public school districts, the one Belle joined in Jackson suffers overcrowded classrooms, underpaid teachers and students whose scores on the ACT, a standardized college-admissions exam, lag behind the national average (the district average last year was just 16.9 out of a total of 36 points). JROTC has helped to even the playing field. "Jackson has more unwed mothers than just about any city of its size in the nation," says state senator Robert Johnson III. "We're talking about second- and third-generation single parents. The people criticizing JROTC are not the people living in these...