Word: sluggish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...initial aim of the funds, which were developed in the 1950s, was to protect against market risk and earn greater return in times of sluggish stock-market performance. The notion had a simple elegance: If rich investors could cash in during booms by betting on winners, couldn't they profit during busts by betting against losers? The first funds were fairly simple, usually holding 50% of their assets in long-term investments that were expected to rise over time, and 50% in short positions in stocks or bonds that were considered overvalued. (In a basic short position a fund sells...
Your illustration of the Mars Sojourner vehicle, "Bargain-Basement Rover" [SPACE, July 14], included a description I got a kick out of. You noted that the vehicle's radio modem "sends signals only at a sluggish 9,600 bits per sec." I was working at the Space Technology Labs in 1957, when we sent our first satellite to the moon. With a 5W transmitter, we were able to receive data at only 1 bit per sec. by the time we got to the moon. The incoming data were so slow that we were decoding them...
...discovery three years ago. Early in 1994, in an abrupt statistical spike, voters in large numbers started saying that crime was their No. 1 concern. So when the House and Senate passed the omnibus crime bill later that year, people actually noticed. Which is one reason why, in a sluggish political summer, when Washington is competing with Mars and Mike Tyson for some quality time with the rest of America, Congress is going after crime again. In May the House passed a bill that would give $1.6 billion to states that agree to toughen their handling of kids who commit...
Things got off to a slow start for the lightweight team. A sluggish beginning in the fall season left Harvard's ability in doubt around the league...
...thought that Cornell was a little sluggish too, but it was certainly going to affect us more than them...