This precludes examination of time effects on cost e.g. lagged cost or lagged coverage and leads to a possible bias in results.
But the government instead measures rental prices for the Consumer Price Index, and those have lagged home costs, making overall inflation seem lower than it really is.
Soaring Expenses As the renovations lagged and the costs skyrocketed, Mr. Wood became more and more involved in the process, several current and former authority officials said.
The company's market share slipped with its quality rankings, competitors have inundated the market with newer cars, its huge credit unit has been struggling and its manufacturing operations have lagged in cutting costs.
Members of Congress and state legislators should take heed, for federal and state funding for financial aid has lagged behind college costs for years, contributing to a disturbing social stratification in our nation's colleges and universities -- both public and private.
"Our prices continue to lag our cost increases," the spokesman, David Winder, said.
Prices have still lagged behind actual cost, and the distribution companies do not recover costs through tariffs, although tariffs have been increased repeatedly in the past decade.
Compounding these strains, tax revenues lagged behind the cost of schools, roads, parks and libraries — the very infrastructure necessary to sustain middle-class life.
The association of cost declines with lagged IT as well as the cost patterns at the less automated hospitals both provide some evidence of learning effects.
Grain harvests doubled, to 70 million tons a year, but the prices that producers get for beef and for other agricultural exports like wheat, corn and soybeans have lagged far behind the cost of machinery, fertilizers and other supplies.
But these carbon capture and sequestration projects, as they're called, have proved technically difficult to pull off: Projects like the one at question here have lagged behind schedule and cost far more than budgeted.
