Word: sluggish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Republican Party inhabits the state capitals. Socially moderate but economically conservative, this group is generally tough on crime, tolerant of abortion rights and concerned about deficits. It is typified by such G.O.P. Governors as Pete Wilson of California and William Weld of Massachusetts who have had to wrestle with sluggish economies as well as the mood swings of an electorate whose jobs are shifting rapidly from the high-wage manufacturing sector to lower-wage service and information industries. This group is less reluctant than other G.O.P. factions to use government to ease that transition. "There are people in the party...
PEOPLE WHO DOWN MORE THAN THREE CUPS OF coffee a day know how awful they can feel when they can't get their caffeine fix. Now a study reveals that even those who sip just two or three cups a day can become anxious, drowsy, sluggish, headachy and depressed if they go cold turkey on Java. The symptoms can be so severe that people stay home from work or visit their doctor, who may fail to tie the patient's problems to sudden cessation of coffee consumption. In the experiment, people deprived of caffeine complained that they felt worse than...
...decline for the day. The Dow finished the week down 64 points, at 3136.58, a 240-point decline since mid-September. Many analysts attribute the pessimism to a host of misgivings, including uncertainties about the outcome of the presidential election. Most worrisome has been the prospect of an extremely sluggish economic recovery and the apparent decision by the Federal Reserve Board not to cut interest rates any further. "The market is suffering from a bad case of high anxiety due to all the uncertainty," says Donald Straszheim, chief economist at Merrill Lynch. "After all," he quips, "it's October...
...other disasters could eventually spell relief for the remaining healthy insurers. Before the storms hit, the industry had been embroiled in a long and painful price war. Since 1987, property-casualty premiums paid by households and businesses have dropped an average of 40%. The intense discounting, and the sluggish profits that went with it, has touched off an industrywide shake-out. State Farm, the nation's largest property-casualty insurer, has racked up underwriting losses of $7.2 billion in the past four years, due largely to price competition and rising claims. In response to softening profitability, Aetna Life & Casualty will...
During that 1,200 seconds, Harvard transformed itself from a sluggish beating horse for the third best team in the nation to a formidable opponent for the Huskies in the second half...