Word: sluggish
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European retailers are always nervous before Christmas, their most important season, but this year they're more jittery than usual. That's because it's so hard to read the economic tea leaves: in Continental Europe, growth looks to be picking up, but consumer spending remains sluggish in Germany and elsewhere. And in the U.K., consumption has slowed as the housing boom tails off. But the news isn't all bad. Investment bankers and fund managers, already highly paid, are expecting record year-end bonuses thanks to vibrant stock markets and a wave of mergers and acquisitions. Headhunters Russell Reynolds...
...blowout at the Ryan Center in Kingston, R.I. last night. For the Crimson (2-1), it was the second straight time it had defeated the Rams (0-2). Last year, it won in Cambridge 83-77. To grab the victory, Harvard was able to shake off a sluggish first half, which found it up by only three points, 23-20, at the break. “We were a little tight in the first half,” co-captain forward Maureen McCaffery said. “We let URI have some runs and we weren’t hitting...
...Crimson cleaned up in the end, escaping the opening ECAC weekend with an unblemished record. Harvard (3-0-0, 2-0-0 ECAC) downed the Tigers (2-1-1, 1-1-0) by a final count of 3-2 at the Bright Hockey Center on Saturday, overcoming a sluggish start to seize the edge on special teams and ultimately the win. The more effective power play and penalty kill won out in the end, with the Crimson converting 3-of-8 extra-skater chances while holding Princeton to two goals in 10 tries. On a team forced to rely...
...brightness of ambient lighting,” says Kasof. With weeks of dark skies in October and snow before Halloween, the forecast for Cambridge seems bleak. Protest as you will that you need the fat to keep warm, the cold winter months might leave you with a sluggish mile time and a muffin top. But don’t worry. Like a crappy Springfest, you can just blame it on the weather...
...Though Rove has not been indicted, Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald is continuing the investigation, and the situation will once again be under the spotlight on Thursday, when Lewis Libby is arraigned. Because of the roles Rove and Libby played in the CIA leak case, and the White House's sluggish performance in the last weeks, some Republicans are saying Bush needs to get new advisers. Kenneth Duberstein, who served as Reagan's chief of staff, said on NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday that Bush needed to "bring in two or three people who can talk with...