1.   It is lagging at the moment but we may be about to see some real performance.

2.   But it noted that immigrants also lagged at lower levels of the education system.

3.   Earnings are lagging at a time when banks are delivering record profits.

4.   Minority admission overall has increased under the program, but it lags at Berkeley and UCLA, the most competitive campuses.

5.   Sales rose because of a weakening Swiss franc and as accelerating revenue at the former Sandoz drug unit offset lagging growth at Ciba, analysts said.

6.   But Rumsfeld said in mid-December that efforts to combat anti-Americanism were one aspect of the war that lagged at first.

7.   Chen is lagging at the polls and has shown himself to be more vulnerable than widely thought before the campaign began.