Word: sluggish
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...like a consensus that for the great majority of American workers, free trade is a long-term boon that delivers better bargains on consumer goods and boosts demand for the products of America's fast-growing, high-wage export industries. More important factors in holding down wages are automation, sluggish growth in productivity and consumer demand for lower-priced goods, whether foreign or domestic. Tariffs against shirts made in China might help workers in America's shrinking garment industry; they won't do much to protect secretaries replaced by voicemail or assembly-line workers shoved aside by robots. And retaliatory...
...seven-member board. The choice to renominate the highly popular Greenspan was a difficult one for a President frustrated by Greenspan's refusal to lower interest rates for fear of causing runaway inflation. Clinton has pushed hard for a lowering of rates to try to jump start a sluggish economy in this election year. Seeking to encourage an interest rate cut, Clinton has called for a national dialogue on how fast the economy can safely grow. "Nobody, but nobody, knows for sure that this economy can't grow any faster in the information age that it did between...
GUATEMALA CITY: Pope John Paul arrived in Guatemala Monday amid intensive security precautions, just a day after what appeared to have been an unsuccessful assassination attempt on Guatemalan President Alvar Arzu. Hoping to speed up the sluggish peace negotiations that have done little to end the 30-year civil war, Pope John Paul is also waging what Mexico Bureau Chief Laura Lopez calls "the intrachristian battle for for hearts and minds". In recent years, the Catholic Church has lost followers in Guatemela to an increasingly popular evangelical movement. Lopez says: "There are only 281 diocesan priests, and 952 religious workers...
...Jones industrial average jumped farther into record territory Tuesday after new reports of a sluggish economy heightened expectations that the Federal Reserve Board was about to lower interest rates. The Dow gained 76.23 points to close at 5,381.21. The New York Stock Exchange composite index also rose, gaining 3.08 to close at 337.28. On the Big Board, advancers led decliners 1,678 to 774, with 661 unchanged. The technology-heavy Nasdaq composite index rose 9.79 to end the day at 1,052.30. The Standard & Poor's 500 stocks rose 5.93 to 630. In London, gold closed at $404.75, down...
Optimistic that the Federal Reserve Board will soon cut interest rates to spur a sluggish economy, investors pushed the Dow Jones industrial average further into record territory Monday. The Dow rose 33.23 to end the day at 5,304.98. The New York Stock Exchange composite index gained 1.36 to finish at 334.20. On the Big Board, advancers led decliners 1,322 to 969, with 793 unchanged. The technology-heavy Nasdaq composite index rose 1.37 to close at 1,042.33. The Standard & Poor's 500 stocks gained 2.59 to 624.21. The American Stock Exchange market value index gained 2.42 to close...