Word: sluggish
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...debate is founded on certain economic and demographic predictions—low birthrates, low immigration and in particular low growth—while Bush’s plan predicts robust gains in the stock market. Normally, one expects financial markets and economies to function similarly over long periods. A sluggish economy should, over the course of 50 years, correspond to a sluggish stock market. The best explanation that anyone has mustered for this is that the rest of the world will flourish, while America lags, but there is no coherent argument for how this trend could justify Bush?...
...budget in 2005. General Electric, Telemundo's parent company, has identified Spanish-language TV as a strategic growth area. (Univision and Telemundo used to be the sole TV options. There are now 67 Spanish-language cable networks, from ESPN Deportes to the History Channel en Espa??ol.) To counter sluggish growth, Miller Brewing Co. signed a three-year, $100 million deal with Univision in October to sponsor programs, buy commercial time and place products on Univision's radio, cable and broadcast network properties...
...games—Friday against Colgate (13-5-0, 5-1-0) and Saturday against Cornell (8-3-2, 4-1-1)—follow a similar 15-day break from competition. The week before Christmas, in the Dodge Holiday Classic, a sluggish Crimson squad mustered a scoreless tie against Northern Michigan and was stunned, 6-4, by Merrimack...
...flourished here. Fifteen years ago, nine of the world's 10 tallest buildings were in the U.S. (The 10th was in Toronto.) Now just two are: the Sears Tower in Chicago and the Empire State Building in Manhattan. All the rest are in Asia. A combination of factors--a sluggish commercial real estate market, skepticism about the profitability of very tall buildings even in good times, the rise of urban thinking critical of skyscrapers and the psychological fallout from 9/11--has discouraged today's American developers from going very, very high...
...triumph in the Cabinet sweepstakes could soon be tested. This week the White House will stage a two-day conference designed to highlight Bush's ambitious second-term domestic plans. To sell that package, Snow will need even more support from Bush, especially against the current backdrop of sluggish job growth, a slumping dollar, and record trade and fiscal deficits. --By Adam Zagorin and James Carney