Word: sluggish
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...make up for a sluggish start, Harvard has a big ally: Brown...
Then a door lock broke. Then a spring popped out of a seat. By the time she had put 50,000 miles on her Jetta, it already felt sluggish, says Jones, 28. And what especially disturbed her were the grim faces of fellow VW owners whom she encountered at her dealership. "The majority of them weren't there for basic service" of their cars, she says, "but because of some defect...
...People's Republic is proving to be the perfect antidote for sluggish growth in the company's principal American market, where the fast-food business is as saturated as deep-fryer fat. Yum has 5,500 KFC outlets in the U.S., and through most of 2003 those outlets that have been open for more than a year were reporting negative sales growth due to intense competition and consumers who are trying to cut down on fried foods. Among the company's Stateside woes, says Lehman Bros. analyst Mitchell Speiser, "service times are slow and the food isn't seen...
...Quattrone IPOs like Corvis (up 91%) and Gemplus (up 88%). Overall, tech is once again the S&P 500's best-performing segment, rising 59% this year, even though that segment has experienced a 5% decline in the previous 12 months of earnings. This remains an industry dogged by sluggish corporate spending and huge amounts of excess capacity. So it's hard to comprehend why the stock market is valuing a dollar of tech earnings three times as highly as a dollar of earnings from nontech...
...months after bringing her new sedan home in 2000, she returned it to the dealership because of a fluid leak. Then a door lock broke. Then a spring popped out of the driver's seat. With 80,000 km on it, her Jetta started to feel sluggish, says Jones, 28. But what especially disturbed her were the grim faces of other VW owners that she encountered at her dealership: "The majority of them weren't there for basic service," she says, "but because of some defect." Ordinarily Volkswagen might say that Jones simply got a lemon - or a "Monday...