On the other hand, the study found five million of what it called lapsed fans, those who used to be regulars but now visit a track only occasionally.
Jim Beloff, a former associate publisher of Billboard who quit his job in 1998 to make a slope-sided, flat-bottomed uke called the Fluke and has sold 2,300 of them in nine months, said many mature folkies, whom he called "lapsed guitarists," were out there.
To explore the moment the human brain starts becoming machine when the singularity begins from within the self multimedia artist Ivan Toth Depeña has created an app called Lapse.
The more miles run, the less a person is likely to be affected by questionable dietary choices or by what Dr. Williams calls "lapses, like those that happen during the holidays".
The book's two lovers have what they call "lapses": his come when she "looked more beautiful, or more strange... or said something unexpected," and his "sense of her romance welled up and overcame him".
In its own Supreme Court brief, it called such lapses lamentable.
Governor Swift today called security lapses at the airport "unacceptable".
The chief of staff of the Air Force, Gen. Norton A. Schwartz, called the lapses "systemic issues".
