41.   Childs may lead his team against Indiana on Sunday at Madison Square Garden, but he is lagging in the point guard popularity polls.

42.   CompuServe has also lagged in marketing and releasing updated software, which had been slated for last spring.

43.   Conditions lag in Texas because of heavy rainfall and that delayed plantings in South Texas earlier in the month.

44.   Deregulation of the industry, which lagged in Canada compared with the U.S. for most of the past two decades, is now taking full hold here.

45.   Dongfeng Motors Co., a truckmaker based in central Hubei province, saw sales lagging production in the first five months of the year.

46.   Dr. Lawrence Corey of the University of Washington in Seattle said health officials are lagging in creating programs to monitor drug resistance for HIV and other viruses.

47.   Egghead lags in other areas against its larger competitors.

48.   European donors have been slow in following through on their pledges of financial help and many countries have lagged in providing volunteers for the short-staffed international police.

49.   Even important trade and financial partners like Germany and Taiwan are lagging in dealing with the problem.

50.   Even so, the United States, accustomed to a steady supply of fish from the ocean and reluctant to control overfishing, has lagged in the field.