Word: sluggish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Heart of Darkness conveys the dwarfing effect that the 1,000-mile journey must have had on the 32-year-old Conrad: "Trees, trees, millions of trees, massive, immense, running up high; and at their foot, hugging the bank against the stream, crept the little begrimed steamboat, like a sluggish beetle crawling on the floor of a lofty portico...
...minutes later, Kempes broke in on Yongblood, who repelled one volley before Kempes poked the ball between two sluggish Dutch defenders for the eventual game-winner...
...White House ponders some stimulants for sluggish exports...
...dollar's slump, which has enabled holders of West Germany's mark, Switzerland's franc, Japan's yen and other strong currencies to buy a piece of the U.S. at bargain prices. More important, in the new economic climate of high-energy prices, sluggish international growth and protectionist trade sentiments, the U.S. appears to be the country best suited to ride out the tempest. It also seems the nation least vulnerable to the terrorism that is ravaging Italy and haunting West Germany, or the political unrest that is polarizing Canada and spreading like a plague through...
...ferocious winter that clobbered business early this year. With new jobs being created at a hectic pace, and production, consumer sales and capital spending all quickening, business should move ahead fast through the spring and summer. But it will begin to falter in the autumn and probably remain sluggish for much of 1979. The extent of the slowdown will depend on many, factors, notably Jimmy Carter's success-or failure-in fighting inflation. That is the forecast of TIME'S Board of Economists, which met last week...