This is also typical of Japan, where facilities for the elderly lag far behind needs.

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China (at 4.7 metric tons per person) and India (1.2 metric tons per person) lag far behind.

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While consumer devices are flooding the business world, most business apps lag far behind the consumer app experience.

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Treatments for neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's lag far behind those for cancer for a couple of daunting reasons.

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Italian clubs lag far behind those in England and Spain in expanding alternative sources of income, most notably merchandising.

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Almost every other neighbour is building new ports or expanding old ones, but Indonesia's lag far behind in efficiency and productivity.

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Even then, China will still lag far behind most rich countries, where gas generally makes up a quarter or more of the total energy mix.

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Although Microsoft is doing well in the software part, most Windows Phone devices lag far behind Android smartphones and the iPhone when it comes to hardware.

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Simon Woolley, head of Operation Black Vote, a non-partisan group, says that black Africans are becoming more politically engaged, although they still lag far behind other minority ethnic groups.

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Most other countries lag far behind.

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And an increasingly assertive Hispanic caucus, in an increasingly Democratic state, also seems sure to demand better schools and health care for the people it represents, who currently lag far behind the Anglos on any social indicator you care to name.

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Both lag far behind Amazon.

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Wages lag far behind inflation.

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But before Westerners begin pointing fingers at Asian countries for contributing to greenhouse gases and other anti-sustainability actions, it should be understood that while they may be growing in their contributions to deleterious effects on the earth, they still lag far behind western nations in terms of per capita production of Carbon Dioxide, the greenhouse gas identified as the greatest contributor to climate change.

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So far, America's multimedia market has tended to lag behind Britain's, at least in the residential market.

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