Paris has long lagged far behind London, dogged by a reputation for excessive regulation and high taxes.
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Yet thus far, federal economic policy has lagged far behind the private sector in recognizing the trend.
Two years ago, Motorola lagged far behind its Scandinavian rivals, Ericsson and Nokia.
Publishing has lagged far behind the rest of the entertainment industry when it comes to measuring consumers' tastes and habits.
Chinese social media, which has for many years lagged far behind that of the U.S., is now rapidly catching up.
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While southern New Hampshire has prospered from the spread of the high-tech boom in Massachusetts, the north has lagged far behind.
Before the quake, Lien lagged far behind in the public opinion polls.
Gabriel Quadri of the New Alliance, who lagged far behind in polls before and after the election, praised Mexico's election authorities Sunday night.
With passengers more than tripling in a single decade, existing airlines started buying new planes and new airlines began operations, but the infrastructure lagged far behind.
After all, Asia lagged far behind the West in science and technology for centuries, and has since caught up to some degree only through imitation, not invention.
They charge that Wal-Mart has lagged far behind its competitors in its promotion of women and knew of discrimination against its female employees but failed to act.
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But spending by NASA and other federal agencies accounted for the entirety of that increase--and it lagged far behind the 9.2% annual growth for the aerospace industry as a whole.
Not surprisingly, dividend payouts have lagged far behind buybacks.
They embraced fiscal austerity aimed at slashing their debt and their recovery has lagged far behind the US. The U.K. Treasury just announced that they expected the economy to contract slightly in 2012, four years after the country first slipped into recession.
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Never before has a candidate who has lagged so far behind in polls a week ahead of the runoff been able to overcome the odds and win.
Of course, Republicans could counter with their own Web-based politics, but so far they have lagged behind the Democrats.
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