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laggard
1. Something that is laggard has too much friction against it
2. The soldier fell back and impaled himself on a crate hook, left casually by some laggard who was too bothered with safely securing it
3. And curst each laggard hour that does not see
4. The laggard, swirling waters appeared as a moving vision of eternity
5. buy more in a laggard
6. The horns of the victors sounded merry and cheerful flourishes, until the last laggard of the camp was at his post; but the instant the British fifes had blown their shrill signal, they became mute
7. He stood in the porch and watched the laggard hurry towards the scrappy field where sharp voices were in strife
8. After the three o’clock bell had tolled and his last laggard pupil had slogged off to field-hockey practice, he would pack up the Italian-leather satchel he’d splurged on with his first paycheck and strike out toward the brownstone blocks north of Washington Square
9. It awaited the family laggard, who found any sort of inconvenience (to others) less disagreeable than getting up when he was called
10. So it was a laggard rally
11. She was the laggard now, because Moonshine's horse was fresh and Robin was tiring
12. great human and terrestrial journey towards the celestial and the divine; it has its halting places where it rallies the laggard troop, it has its stations where it meditates, in the presence of some splendid Canaan suddenly unveiled on its horizon, it has its nights when it sleeps; and it is one of the poignant anxieties of the thinker that he sees the shadow resting on the human soul, and that he gropes in darkness without being able to awaken that slumbering Progress
13. My intuition is that recent laggard stocks may have underperformed because of selling pressure, while recent winners may have benefited from buying pressure
14. How disturbed have you been by their recent laggard performance? If the answer is “very,” then you should choose a portfolio more heavily weighted toward U
15. Syntex was the leader; Searle the laggard
16. Another indicator that is helpful at times in evaluating the stage of a market cycle is the percentage of stocks in defensive or laggard categories that are making new price highs
17. L = Leader or Laggard
18. Is the stock in a leading industry group or a laggard one?
19. International funds can, after a period of good performance, suffer years of laggard results, and investing in foreign governments creates added risk
20. A few months later, we learned that key officials in that trust department had been relieved of their jobs as a result of their laggard performance
21. Look mainly for “new America” entrepreneurial companies (those with a new issue within the last eight or ten years) rather than too many laggard, “old America” companies