Word: sluggish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...result was a conversion whose rapidity made St. Paul's fall from horseback on the road to Damascus look positively sluggish. Suddenly the issue was how to make sculpture that carried no association whatever with the human figure (which even David Smith's erect steel totems habitually do): "I wanted to make sculpture that was real, not metaphoric. I didn't want to make models of people." The pedestal, Caro argued to himself, puts a frame round the meaning of any sculpture. "A base says, 'This is the limit of the sculpture's world...
Trash Slash. A steady downward trend has been established by one of the economy's more esoteric indicators: garbage collections. Consumers buying fewer goods have less to throw out; sluggish industrial activity is reflected in less waste. In the first three months of 1975, Chicago sanitation workers picked up 200,000 fewer tons than in the first quarter of 1974. Conspicuously absent are the usual numbers of discarded major appliances such as stoves, washing machines and refrigerators. New York City's household and construction wastes dwindled by nearly 1 million tons in 1974, and continue to diminish...
...employees--wield little spending power by Northamerican standards. As a consequence, the few necessary manufactured goods and all capital goods are imported, also largely from the United States. Luxury goods are concentrated, of course, in the few lavishly wealthy homes. The poor are trapped on the edges of a sluggish and static economy that can neither employ them nor produce to fulfill their needs...
...Celtics, idle for eight days since the end of the regular season, came alive after a sluggish start and went in front to stay on three consecutive baskets by Havlicek midway through the opening period...
Students in the city's schools consistently score below national norms on standardized tests. The streets are pocked with potholes and snow removal is sluggish. More and more middle-class residents and the companies that employ them are fleeing to the suburbs, eroding the municipal tax base...