Word: sluggish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Both teams were very sluggish to start," Harvard Coach Frank Sullivan said. "It's good to see that we took a stand...
While the rest of Harvard readied itself on Tuesday night for the start of a new semester, the men's basketball team lost a sluggish game to new Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire...
...country whose population of 258 million has comfortably filled the land and is worried about overpopulation and a threatened environment. Many are alarmed by a projection that if the immigrant tide continues, the U.S. population will rise to 392 million by the middle of the next century. The sluggish performance of the American economy, accompanied by persistent unemployment, makes aliens once again appear a threat to jobs. In particular, the growth of illegal immigration and the government's inability to stanch the flow are a constant irritant to Americans...
...both slithered into jeans and t-shirts discarded only hours earlier, my brother just slightly more sluggish than me. Silently we crept downstairs and out into the cold November...
Part of the problem, of course, is that production growth has been far more sluggish than usual for the first 31 months of recovery; and this has been reflected in an equally slow reduction in unemployment -- down from 7.8% in June 1992 to 6.8% last month, but still far higher than normal for this stage of an expansion. But the unemployment rate is a grossly inadequate measure of hardship. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich estimates that in addition to the 8.8 million people officially counted as jobless, 1.2 million are so discouraged that they have quit looking for work...