Word: sluggish
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...begin to thaw until the last several games of the season. When you play less than 10 games total, however, the year is over before it even begins. As a JV baseball player, you learn to worship at the temple of small sample size, for a sluggish offensive start is deadly to any hopes of competitiveness...
Part of the purpose of the exhibition is to speed up a sluggish procurement system. The Pentagon has failed for months, for example, to get into Iraq adequate protection against improvised explosive devices and is losing an average of a soldier nearly every day to those homemade bombs. The show brings more than 550 vendors to one site and helps compress a laborious Defense Department process by offering commanders proven equipment that is already commercially available...
...story is laced with warnings for its fast-rising rival. While GM is still the world's biggest automaker, its North American market share has slid for years despite costly incentive programs. Saddled with excess capacity and sluggish sales of all-new cars like the Pontiac G6, the company recently forecast a first-quarter loss of nearly $850 million. Highly profitable, full-size SUVs like the Chevy Tahoe risked looking like beached whales as record gas prices crimp sales and consumers shift to smaller models and hybrids made by rivals. (Until recently, GM dismissed passenger-car hybrids as a lousy...
...sloppy start doomed Harvard in its race against Georgetown last week, and a similar sluggish beginning against Cornell and Penn in the season’s first dual race made the Crimson wary of another poor start against Dartmouth and MIT. In its two previous dual races, Harvard was forced to play catch-up after the race’s opening 25 strokes...
...forecasters were not prepared for the burst of alarming signs that flashed from Washington last week. The most worrisome was a Commerce Department announcement that the gross national product had grown at only a 1.3% annual rate in the first quarter of this year. That was well below the sluggish 2.1 % estimate that the Government issued last month and the smallest GNP gain since the .5% increase in the final quarter of 1982. Noted Walter Heller, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson: "The economy is pretty weak at the moment. We have...