Word: sluggish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Thompson Arena is bitingly cold and painfully empty, but Harvard doesn't mind. The Crimson handles the sluggish Big Green, 6-3, with balanced scoring (six different players) and solid defense...
That should make Harvard wary. Moreover, the Eagles, despite a sluggish beginning, have been playing good hockey as of late...
Harvard looked noticeably sluggish after its 20-day layoff, but managed to combine solid defense with timely offense to beat its foe from New York...
...have been since 1989). Furthermore, the Governor has implemented a welfare-reform plan, requiring able-bodied recipients to undergo training or schooling, and imposing penalties if they do not. So far, the results are inconclusive, but critics say the plan has been sabotaged by the state's sluggish welfare bureaucracy...
...first electronic dictionaries and spell checkers were gizmos that came into being not because they were needed but because they were possible. The electronic brains in early models were so puny and sluggish that people thumbing through real dictionaries often took less time than the computers to find the right words; and sometimes the machines failed to find them...