Word: sluggish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mere adolescent, it is 15 ft. tall and armed with dagger-sharp teeth. The triceratops attempts a retreat, but the cold-blooded creature can only move slowly. It is too soon after sunrise, and the dinosaur hasn't had time to absorb the heat it needs to rouse its sluggish metabolism. While T. rex has the same problem, its longer legs enable it to quickly overtake the docile herbivore. And then...
...assumption that dinosaurs were ectothermic -- cold-blooded -- was originally based on a simple argument. Reptiles are ectothermic -- they can't regulate their body heat. If they get too hot, they die. If they get too cold, they get sluggish. Dinosaurs were closely related to reptiles. End of argument...
Marx said Radcliffe's sluggish performance during the last 1000 meters can be largely attributed to fatigue...
...began laying off workers in 1986. Yet its stock has fallen 50%, in contrast to a rise of 48% by the S&P 500. Monsanto started cutting its work force in 1985, but its stock rose a slim 30%. Clearly these were troubled companies that would probably have suffered sluggish stock prices in any event, but the study indicates that cutting labor costs did not make Wall Street forgive their more deep-seated problems...
...effects of fare wars and sluggish ticket sales, which have buffeted lesser players in the airline business in recent months, finally hit the industry's top tier. Boeing, the world's biggest planemaker, announced that it would lay off 28,000 workers over the next 18 months -- nearly 20% of its total work force. Meanwhile, British Airways, widely touted as "the world's most profitable airline," did manage to report a profit, but barely. Earnings for the third quarter fell to $28.7 million, a stomach-wrenching 80% drop from a year...