Word: sluggish
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...companies like KDDI. Sales of ring tones reached $4.1 billion worldwide last year, according to Strategy Analytics, proving that consumers are predisposed to wireless downloading, even if the product is little more than synthetic song snippets. Technical barriers are disappearing, too: as more carriers upgrade to 3G systems, sluggish data-transfer rates are becoming a thing of the past (songs can be transferred in as few as 30 seconds via 3G networks). The capacity of phones to store music remains a problem, but that's being solved, too. This month Samsung Electronics plans to launch the first phone with...
...Crimson front line, conversely, had few problems after its sluggish start. Freshman middle hitter Suzie Trimble turned in 10 kills and a .471 hitting percentage on the afternoon, and 17 kills in the second game gave Harvard the momentum heading into the next frame...
This trend is seemingly out of step with the national picture, where the number of applicants to medical school increases during a shrinking or sluggish economy. But where the figures for undergraduate matriculation to medical school have fallen, the alumni numbers have picked up the slack. From 1996-2002, the trends in application numbers for alumni and graduating seniors are roughly parallel. As undergraduate numbers decreased in 2003-—the most recent data available—the alumni applicants increased 16 percent from the previous year. Overall, 2003 actually saw an increase in the number of Harvard affiliates...
...Northeastern offense never recovered from its sluggish third quarter, during which it mustered only 64 yards of offense. At the beginning of the fourth, a developing Northeastern drive ended abruptly when senior cornerback Sean Tracy made a diving interception at the Harvard 31. Tracy hassled the Husky offense all afternoon, pacing the Crimson defense with seven tackles...
...Crimson (8-4, 4-0 Ivy) relied on a hat trick from Maasdorp to recover from a sluggish first half and send the Bulldogs (5-6, 1-3 Ivy) home from Jordan Field with a 3-2 loss...