Word: sluggish
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...periods, the Harvard women’s hockey team was unrecognizable. The recently dominant Crimson missed offensive opportunities, looked sluggish on the ice, and seemed to lack the sense of urgency that a playoff series should inspire.It took one long shot off the stick of junior Kathryn Farni to change that.No. 7 Harvard reasserted its authority in the final frame to earn a 3-0 victory over Cornell in the first game of the ECAC quarterfinals Friday afternoon at Bright Hockey Center. “I think we came out a little slow,” Crimson coach Katey Stone...
...truth, Pooley argues that reporters fell into what he calls the stenography model of journalism, simply reporting both sides with equal weight. The problem is, the two sides weren't equal. The skeptics' models tended to assume, quietly, that the pace of technological advance for renewable energy would be sluggish - significantly raising the costs of trying to cap carbon emissions. The models from the green side - led by the Environmental Defense Fund - tended to be fairer, projecting a range of possible economic impacts from cap-and-trade. Increasingly, mainstream economists are arguing that the costs of doing nothing about climate...
Start of Second Period - I'm sure Harvard coach Katey Stone had some stern words for her team during intermission. Let's see if the Crimson can turn around its sluggish play in the second frame...
...game.“Obviously, [we were] very disappointed in the outcome, because the game turned on a dime because of a penalty,” Harvard coach Katey Stone said. To even bring the game to overtime, however, the Crimson had to claw its way back from a sluggish start.Both teams traded missed opportunities in the game’s opening minutes, and while Harvard got a power-play chance with six minutes left in the first, the team failed to convert, a problem that would follow it for the rest of the evening.“I don?...
...Last year was retail’s worst yet, and the Wall Street Journal reported that high end retailers like Saks have resorted to slashing prices to combat sluggish sales. Still, Saks saw January sales plummet by 24 perecent. Neiman Marcus is expecting a previously unheard-of quarterly loss for the holiday shopping period...