It awaited the family laggard, who found any sort of inconvenience (to others) less disagreeable than getting up when he was called.
" Until this month copper had been a laggard, climbing only 5 per cent compared with a 55 per cent surge for zinc and 17 per cent rise for aluminium.
For the first time in many years, China was a laggard on regional FDI growth rather than an engine: it saw a 23 per cent decline in capital investment and a 16 per cent drop in FDI projects due to plateauing economic growth and rising costs.
" Volkswagen, previously regarded as a laggard in vehicle electrification, said in Frankfurt this week that it would introduce 20 new plug-in hybrid or all-electric models by 2020, and it introduced a battery-powered Porsche concept car.
In other ways, however, the company is a laggard, with just three large data centers in China and a smaller one in Hong Kong.
