Word: sluggish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...visited Tokyo last month, he repeatedly implied that "change" could bring Japan smoother trading relations with the world, a more consumer-oriented society, a government concerned with its citizens' quality of life. U.S. officials have been pushing Japan to cut taxes and spend more government money to boost the sluggish economy and increase imports from the U.S. Even though the election results demonstrate an impulse toward change, says a senior Administration official, "we should not presuppose it is the kind of change that we think ought to happen...
...world's hardships and hatreds were hardly diminished by the end of the cold war. Standing up to the Soviets, while a daunting task and perhaps one oversimplified at the time, was in some ways less tricky than sorting out the collapse of Yugoslavia or dealing with a persistently sluggish global economy. Communism's demise left grand alliances of countries bereft of ideologies, foes and, ultimately, a vision of where to go next...
...national economy is throwing off its own confusing messages. A continuing sluggish recovery is certainly bad news: it threatens to trim corporate profits and cause stock prices to slump. But a robust recovery might have the same effect: by boosting interest rates it could entice investors back to banks and money markets and put the bull to flight. The key to everything seems to be interest rates. "If you get a major rise in rates, it will kill the market," says Marty Zweig, who runs the Zweig Funds...
...economists, however, blamed the slowdown on the snow and rainstorms that battered the South, West and Northeast during February and March. Still, the Administration can expect more bad news, says an influential group of chief executives. In its first report card on the Clinton Administration, the Business Council predicted sluggish growth ahead due to the continuing downturn in Europe and other markets...
...fact, five or six different kinds of warm- and cold-bloodedness, and they are sometimes hard to distinguish, even in living animals. Moreover, making generalizations about the relationship between an animal's activity level and its metabolism can be misleading. "We tend to think that cold-blooded animals are sluggish, but that's not very accurate," says Yale paleontologist John Ostrom. "Some snakes, lizards and crocodiles can move faster than humans can. At the same time, we tend to think that warm-blooded animals are fast and very active, but the average house cat spends a lot of time snoozing...