Word: sluggish
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...nearly doubled from 48.8 million in the year ended March 31, 2004, to 95 million. Meanwhile nine private airlines have started up in recent years. Some, such as Kingfisher Airlines, are full service, but most are low-cost carriers that have wooed millions of travelers away from India's sluggish train and bus networks-and into its sluggish airports, which lack sufficient gates, baggage-handling equipment and other facilities to manage the influx. The crunch at New Delhi's airport is so bad that India's Aviation Ministry is refusing to allow an increase in departures this summer despite pleading...
...debate first became heated over the issue that tops voter concerns: France's sluggish economy and chronic unemployment. For Sarkozy, there's no mystery to the malaise: "It's because we work less than others do." Though he doesn't advocate a full reversal of the 35-hour working week introduced by a Socialist government in 1998, he wants to free both employers and employees from paying payroll tax and insurance charges on overtime hours. Royal's response: "I prefer to give work to those who don't have any," especially through a government-funded program to give six-month...
...ball out of the ballpark, so I just wanted to go strength against strength there,” Walsh said. “I just didn’t want the longball to beat us there.”After a sluggish start in the first game, Harvard jumped on Staehley early. Back-to-back RBI doubles from senior Andrew Casey and freshman Dan Zailskas in the second gave the Crimson a quick lead, and unearned runs in the fourth and six frames made it comfortable for Haviland. Haviland allowed a double to Van Horn to lead off the game...
...three errors and walking three batters on top of giving up six hits. Unger allowed four runs in 3 1/3 innings, only one of which was earned. The Crimson was sloppy on defense as a unit, making six errors in total. “As a team we were sluggish and we didn’t come out with the intensity we did against Notre Dame,” captain Brendan Byrne said. The Crimson was able to keep pace with the Spartans for much of the game, tying it twice after being down...
...It’s not so much nerves, but playing someone that good,” Denenberg said. “Maybe my movement was a little sluggish, but playing someone at that level makes you over-hit balls. But that’s what Federer does right? He makes you hit at his level...