Word: sluggish
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...defense and sluggish offense combined with a Brown team on top of its game, and it would be reasonable to expect the Crimson to completely fall apart...
...Delhi, looks like a perfect emblem of the new India. Emblazoned with logos of clothing stores, gift shops and fast-food restaurants, the mall's glistening exterior seems to capture the exuberance of India's economic boom. Inside, however, except for a busy restaurant and supermarket, business is sluggish, and many shops are slathered with signs proclaiming SALE. "The customer response has been far below our expectations," says Atul Kaushal, owner of Threads & Toes Mart, a shop that sells jeans and shoes. "Many people come to the mall to look around, but very few actually buy anything." Kaushal says...
...India's tech companies are expected to hire 75,000 to 100,000 people this year?a 50% increase compared with last year?because after years of relatively sluggish growth, the sector is roaring again. Revenues for India's IT businesses will grow by a heady 40% this year, according to Vijay Baoney, a technology analyst at Indian brokerage house Enam Securities. The problem for companies is finding enough midlevel executives who can train, groom and oversee the influx of raw recruits. "Experienced hires are not there on the scale that the industry needs them," says Hema Ravichandar, head...
...setting up labs, visiting clinics, gathering blood samples, educating health workers and negotiating the intricately layered bureaucracy of the Chinese health establishment. Ho's efforts?and those of other AIDS activists?finally paid off last week when, on World AIDS Day, the Chinese government took a lesson from its sluggish response to the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic and launched its first big AIDS public-awareness campaign, complete with posters, TV spots and an unprecedented visit by Premier Wen Jiabao to a Beijing hospital, where he shook hands with AIDS patients...
...government out of the way of growing businesses. Deregulation had started tentatively under Carter with the airlines, but Reagan applied it broadly, to energy and broadcasting and butressed it with a dismantling of antitrust laws. Reagan was a staunch free-trader and did little to stop the onslaught against sluggish American corporations from aggressive Japanese manufacturers. Reagan's term coincided with the height of Japan's economic boom, and his instinct was that in the long run, it would be better to let most companies fend for themselves...