Word: sluggish
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With the possible exception of a stagnant middle period, which saw no goals and a grand total of six shots, the Golden Gophers dominated the match-up and summarily sent a sluggish Dartmouth squad to the consolation game...
However, the energy in the set design could not transcend the production’s mainly sluggish protagonists. Apart from Jon the Ballboy (professional actor James Sugg), who was the utterly delightful idiot of the play, the characters were a bored, cynical, angry bunch, who would often fall down on the spot, as if they completely lacked the energy to continue existence...
...result, Berlusconi has handed the League several top ministerial posts, and made regular visits to Bossi during his convalescence. Berlusconi may be even more eager to please potential allies since he's seen his own poll numbers dip. His alliance with U.S. President George W. Bush combined with the sluggish economy have pushed Berlusconi's ratings down to 43%, according to a Demos-Eurisko poll published last week in the left-leaning La Repubblica daily. The Prime Minister did make one enormously popular announcement last week: during a political chat show on TV, he said Italian troops would begin pulling...
...second-period burst came on the heels of a sluggish opening frame, in which Harvard outshot the Golden Knights 10-2 but came away empty-handed. The slow start is becoming a troubling trend for the Crimson...
...With previous cuts totaling only 10% and sluggish growth eroding revenues, Chirac is looking to new Finance Minister Hervé Gaymard to work some magic. Last week, Gaymard pledged tax cuts in 2006 and 2007 and vowed to sell stakes worth nearly 320 billion in state firms including nuclear-power company Areva and utility mammoth Electricité de France. That, Gaymard hopes, will stimulate economic growth that, at 2.3% in 2004, was below government estimates of 2.5%. Surprisingly, Gaymard is predicting the same for this year. "Given commodity prices like oil rising, we should count on lower growth next year...