Word: sluggish
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...advance and Jay-Z is being blamed. Last year 400,000 people pre-registered for 135,000 passes, which sold out in less than two hours. With a day to go, tickets were still available for this year's event, although Eavis is confident they will sell. The sluggish sales have provoked much deliberation, but some festival traditionalists attribute this to the choice of Jay-Z as the headliner. One initial comment on the nme.com Website described the decision as a "disaster," while another said, "rap is the pop music of the twenty-first century, but Glastonbury has always tried...
...Overall, a sluggish economy appears to have made it harder for the Class of 2008 to find employment, with 66 percent of workforce-bound seniors reporting that they have a job lined up after graduation, compared with 73 percent in a similar survey last year...
...toxic breeze blows through the northeastern U.S., and people start killing themselves. A married couple (Mark Wahlberg and Zooey Deschanel) goes on the run to stay alive, but nothing can save the lamest sci-fi drama yet from the auteur of The Sixth Sense. Laced with bizarre histrionics and sluggish scare tactics, The Happening is an ill wind indeed...
...architects of the ban deny a link between population and poverty. "I reject the notion that we are poor because we are plenty," says former mayor Atienza. "Poverty is caused by mismanagement, not by the number of people." He?s partly right, of course. Endemic corruption and sluggish agricultural production helps keep the Philippines poor. But government statistics and a host of studies show that population is part of the problem. Access to nutrition, education and employment decreases dramatically when a family outgrows its means...
...Overall, a sluggish economy appears to have made it harder for the Class of 2008 to find employment, with 66 percent of workforce-bound seniors reporting that they have a job lined up after graduation, compared with 73 percent in a similar survey last year...