Word: sluggish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Life here in depopulated Cambridge promises to be mostly unaffected by The Game, though some local merchants predicted a sluggish business weekend...
...relatively small. The Administration, for example, projects a net gain of 200,000 American jobs in the next two years. That sounds impressive, but it is not much more than the 150,000 new jobs the U.S. domestic economy is creating every month, even at the present sluggish rate of employment growth. On the other side, Perot keeps talking about a "giant sucking sound" of factories, money and jobs being vacuumed into Mexico from the U.S. He is almost the only one who can hear it. Some treaty opponents have been kicking around a figure of 500,000 jobs that...
...Jersey, anger at the $2.8 billion increase Florio pushed through in 1990 would not by itself have been enough to beat him, in the view of Whitman's campaign manager, Ed Rollins. His attack against Florio focused on the idea that the state's economy is still sluggish and schools are still poor, "so you got taxed a lot more, and you didn't get anything for it." The upshot, in the view of many analysts: voters will grudgingly approve tax increases they can be persuaded are needed for specific purposes -- but woe to the officeholder who raises taxes...
...match against Dartmouth, the Crimson started off a bit sluggish, playing...
...University were to lose its patrollers, it would mean more than spending the night in the hallway outside your locked room. It would mean a sluggish response when a law student is stabbed in the Square. It would mean that the brawl earlier this month in Eliot and Kirkland Houses could have turned into a full-blown melee, with greater violence and injuries. It would mean a crippling of Harvard's ability to respond in the event of any crime, any emergency...