Word: sluggish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sluggish, shaky takeoff. The four-seat Cessna seemed to shudder from the moment it lifted off Runway 30, and investigators have suggested it was too heavy for the conditions at that altitude. Everyone on board must have instantly realized something was wrong. Jessica's plane was equipped with dual controls, so that Reid could immediately take over in an emergency, and presumably he did--his arms were fractured more severely than hers, suggesting he had his hands on the yoke. In such a situation, an experienced pilot might have landed the plane on the golf course...
...president of Comedy Central, said the network was not picking up the show. Negotiations to devise a new format were unfruitful; two weeks ago, Herzog gave Best Brains, MST3K's production company, permission to try to sell the program elsewhere. The final new episode--a fond savaging of the sluggish sci-fi teen-angst epic Laserblast--will...
...sluggish era for what most people think of as movies--those two-hour, live-action behemoths that saturate the multiplexes--some of the cinema's most inventive talents are working in miniature: short films, music videos, commercials. Park, 37, a star of Aardman Animations in Bristol, England, has done it all, contributing to the 1986 Peter Gabriel video Sledgehammer and a series of spots for Britain's Heat Electric utility. But Park is best known for his own four films, all Oscar winners or nominees: Creature Comforts (1989), a five-minute potpourri of comments by ordinary English folk put into...
...without their critics, and a handful of others show either no decline or some localized increase. There are further indications, however, that something disturbing is going on. Not only do sperm counts seem to be dropping, but the quality of sperm--the percentage of healthy, vigorous cells versus malformed, sluggish ones--appears to be in serious decline as well. Doctors have also noted an increase in the incidence of testicular cancer and undescended testicles...
...dreams of bringing the first ever men's basketball championship to Harvard ended on the road last Friday. The Crimson came up just two points short (66-64) of their first victory at Penn since 1990. On Saturday, Princeton took advantage of a sluggish start by Harvard in a 65-58 win. IVY STANDINGS IVY OVERALL Team W L PCT W L PCT Princeton 10 1 .909 18 5 .783 Penn 9 2 .818 14 9 .609 Darmouth 7 5 .583 14 10 .583 Harvard 6 6 .500 14 10 .583 Cornell 5 7 .417 9 14 .391 Brown...