The women in the Women's Health Initiative study will be followed for years, he said, which should eventually determine if the breast cancer risk lingers, and, if so, for how long.
But political risk lingers.
And the stigma of the pill's early history of health risks lingers on.
With the exception of the risks lingering in older homes, "everyone thought that lead paint was something in the past," Brosche said.
In other words, these risks should linger into 2013".
Experts attribute the low number to a variety of factors, including rental laws that favor tenants, conservative lending practices, a historical aversion to risk, and lingering memories of World War II, in which many families saw their homes destroyed.
That lingering risk is the reason why Ocado seems fundamentally overvalued.
Did the flood waters spread contamination that poses a lingering risk?
There is no immediate health risk from PCBs lingering in schools, all are told, yet with one important caveat: the longer the exposure, the higher the risk.
Of course, there is the lingering risk that the bargaining unit for the communications workers' union representing nearly 40,000 employees in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, and the District of Columbia, could let the strike drag on in their states.
