Substandard teaching staff make Jharkhand, Bihar laggards - Daily Pioneer
27 May 2012, 1:46 pm
Jharkhand and Bihar are among the top States that have an alarmingly high number of untrained teachers imparting primary and secondary education. More than 50 per cent of their teaching staff is ineligible to teach in such schools. In response to the HRD ...

Canadian dividend and income equity funds: Leaders and laggards - Globe and Mail
25 May 2012, 6:34 pm
We looked for the eight best and eight worst performers in the category for this year until May 23. U.S. dollar, segregated and duplicate versions of funds were excluded. A pair of sibling funds in the black, and others struggling in the red. Because ...

Friday Sector laggards: Medical Instruments & Supplies, Computers - Forbes
25 May 2012, 11:04 am
In trading on Friday, medical instruments & supplies shares were relative laggards, down on the day by about 0.6%. Helping drag down the group were shares of Delcath Systems (DCTH), off about 35.7% and shares of Navidea Biopharmaceuticals (NAVB ...

NetApp, Tiffany: S&P 500 laggards - Inside Fidelity
24 May 2012, 4:05 pm
NEW YORK (TheStreet (Symbol : TST)) - NetApp (Symbol : NTAP) and Tiffany were among the worst performers in the S&P 500 on Thursday. The S&P 500 increased 1.82 points, or 0.14%, to close at 1,320.68 on Thursday. The company also forecast non-GAAP earnings ...

Nikkei firms as investors pick up laggards - Reuters
21 May 2012, 8:27 pm
TOKYO, May 22 (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei share average rose in early trade on Tuesday, continuing Monday's technical correction as investors picked up bargains after last week's flurry of aggressive selling, triggered by concern over a deepening ...

Cash-rich laggards start setting the pace - Financial Times
17 May 2012, 10:52 am
In the broader market rally this year, cash-rich companies were left behind, lagging the S&P 500. But now, as eurozone stresses return and equities head south, balance sheet strength is once again looking attractive. Since the S&P 500 peaked in April, the ...

Wednesday Sector laggards: Water Utilities, Paper & Forest Products - Forbes
16 May 2012, 11:57 am
In trading on Wednesday, water utilities shares were relative laggards, down on the day by about 0.7%. Helping drag down the group were shares of Tri Tech Holding Ord (TRIT), off about 6.7% and shares of California Water Service Group (CWT) up ...

Thank Your Mom—She Taught You How to Tech - Atlantic Online
11 May 2012, 2:26 pm
"I knew this network was here to stay when even my mom signed up." In the tech world, moms are regularly invoked as the bottom of the user barrel, the hopeless laggards any tech product has to serve in spite of our limited skills. We're too numerous (and ...

Investing well in IT with emphasis on KPIs separates business leaders from laggards, survey results show - ZDNet
11 May 2012, 1:58 pm
Summary: When you delve underneath these companies who get such great returns on IT, you find two or three different things that are embodied in what we saw in some of the leaders here. One of them is really good governance around decision making.

Trendsetting Cities Lead in Picking Music Hits - YAHOO!
9 May 2012, 6:22 am
To separate the trendsetters from the laggards, Lee adapted a method that had been used to identify the lead birds in flocks of pigeons. "Even though it was used for kind of a specific, obscure topic, you can use the method for measuring leadership in many ...