Word: sluggish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...After a sluggish first period where the Tigerscaught Harvard not moving its feet and lungingafter the puck, the Crimson tightened up andinitiated the contact...
...actually reach back further, to Black Monday, Oct. 19, 1987, when the Dow Jones industrial average shed 22.6% of its value in a single day. The market, of course, rebounded--and how. But at the time, professional investors thought U.S. stocks were due for a decade of slow-to-sluggish performance. Their eyes--and wallets--quickly alighted on the world's so-called emerging markets. These nations, allegedly "emerging" from centuries of economic backwardness, were posting phenomenal growth rates: Malaysia grew 9.5% in one year, Thailand 13%. Investors--especially young portfolio managers entranced by Malaysian food and Thai night life...
...first game after the exam break, Harvardcame out sluggish as a team against Yale, but acareer offensive performance from Beam spotted theCrimson a 10-point halftime lead in spite of 32percent shooting from the rest of the team...
...first two periods never suggested adramatic finish. Despite the close score, gameplay was sluggish and plodding, with severalend-to-end chances marked by defensive breakdowns...
...were sluggish at the start of the firstperiod," Tomassoni said. "We were sluggish at thestart of the second. For some reason it took us awhile to find our legs in each period...