Word: sluggish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cost of petroleum products, ranging from heating oil to gasoline, would rise 3? to 5? a gallon. The inflation rate, now projected at 7.5% for next year, would rise by another .3%. The rate of economic growth, they estimated, would be trimmed by .15% to 2.5%, a performance sluggish enough to lead to a recession, though the Administration continued to insist that there would be no recession. Unemployment, currently at 5.8%, could...
...team's poise under pressure pleased coach Paul Moses, who said the team has greatly improved since its sluggish wins over Tufts, Bowdoin and Wesleyan earlier this season...
...chief Cabinet secretary to Premier Hayato Ikeda in 1960, was an architect of Japan's spectacularly successful drive to make Japan an exporting juggernaut, Washington is uncertain about how eager he will be to trim those exports at a time when Japan's domestic economy has turned sluggish...
Missing three fencers from last year's A-1 quartet due to graduation, the Crimson women had little chance to test their new mettle against the inept, unskilled Rhodies. As Captain Kathy Lowry discovered after a somewhat sluggish start in the opening bout of the match, easy victories required no more than straightforward quick lunges with no fakes...
This was a game in which the booters matched their season high for goals scored despite the sluggish first half. "We were sleeping out there at first," Diaz said afterward. "It took a goal to get us going...