Word: sluggish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once Premier, Khalil characteristically cracked down on corruption and inefficiency. Eleven former ministers are now under investigation. One of them, Ahmed Sultan, until recently minister of power and electricity, faces charges of accepting $300,000 in bribes from Westinghouse. Khalil's other favorite target is Egypt's sluggish bureaucracy. He has begun decentralizing the system, delegating ministerial authority to rural governors and village headmen...
...stock market will remain sluggish for months, but later this year it will rebound...
Because U.S. growth will be sluggish this year, imports are expected to decline. Exports should rise because the cheap dollar makes U.S. cars, jets, grain, and other goods bargains in international markets. Those factors should trim the nation's trade deficit from a horrendous $28.5 billion last year to a merely very bad $22 billion this year. But the dollar probably will remain weak for a variety of reasons: a surfeit of $600 billion in greenbacks is sloshing around the world as a result of inflationary excesses; foreign governments are weary of spending their own currency to support...
Today's Baghdad positively throbs with progress. The streets are clean, the traffic surprisingly orderly, the shops filled with consumer goods from Western Europe and the U.S. The city, built along the banks of the sluggish Tigris River, was one of the principal locales of The Thousand and One Nights. Today, with 20-story buildings rising above its graceful mosques, it looks every bit the citadel of Baath power that may soon stretch from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean...
...sluggish. Neither team played very well, but we did have a good spurt near the end of the first half to pull away. It was a good game to get rid of first game jitters," she said last night...