Word: sluggish
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After the Crimson was forced to punt following a sluggish drive on its next possession, senior free safety Chris Raftery gave Harvard a wake-up jolt by snatching an interception at the Brown 23 and scampering into the end zone for a 7-0 Crimson lead...
...President George W. Bush's approval rating dropped to 49 percent last week in an NBC-Wall Street Journal poll, his lowest rating since the 2001 terrorist attacks. Amid a still-sluggish economy, concerns about postwar Iraq and ballooning budget deficits, some are wondering aloud whether one of the candidates in the heated-up Democratic race could defeat Bush in 2004. However, many other presidents experienced similar drops in approval before being elected to second terms, and some political commentators dismiss the low approval rating as irrelevant. What do you think? Is Bush untouchable in 2004, as he seemed...
...best improvements are in performance and fuel efficiency. The Prius goes from 0 to 60 in 10 sec., a significant boost over the sluggish 12.5 sec. of last year's model. More impressive is the 59 m.p.g. in the city and 51 m.p.g. on the highway...
Responding to criticism over the sluggish progress of clinical trials in University labs, Harvard Medical School (HMS) Dean Joseph B. Martin pointed to a number of speed bumps, including a lack of collaboration between scientists, doctors and administrators...
Such networking skills made headlines last week as Welchia, a network-only worm, grounded Air Canada's check-in system and caused three-fourths of U.S. Navy and Marine Corps computers to surrender. But if anyone thought e-mail worms were sluggish by comparison, Sobig.F was on hand to prove them wrong. In a single day, 1 in every 17 mails sent worldwide came from Sobig.F. At the New York Times, reporters were forced to turn off their terminals. Experts were shocked and awed by the worm's unprecedented clip. "This is the undisputed heavyweight champion of viruses," declared Scott...