Word: sluggish
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...start out promisingly. The Eagles, who will fall to club status next year mostly due to a lack of funding, have been making the most of their final games in the varsity class. Harvard only beat them by three goals earlier in October and experienced another sluggish start last night, managing only two scores in the first quarter. Both were the handiwork of sophomore driver Mike Masterson...
...potential songs down to 20, we recorded a few "basement tapes" (fittingly recorded in a basement). These low-fi, pre-recordings help to get a general sense of how a tune is going to sound on tape. Songs that leap up off of a live stage may adopt a sluggish crawl when forced onto the recorded medium. Perhaps "The Queen of Guadeloupe" was fated that...
...Crimson hardly foresaw such a tough match after its powerful start. Breaking free of a sluggish 5-5 tie in the first game, the Crimson pulled out the game with a six-point rally and dominated the second game with 17 kills...
...Crimson got off to a sluggish start, and found itself down 3-0 after the first seven minutes...
...latest year for which figures are available. That?s virtually the same number who smoked in 1997 and 1990. And while the 1998 data does indicate a slight decrease in smokers (24.1 percent versus 25.5 percent in 1990), the CDC isn?t exactly thrilled with such a sluggish rate of slowdown. The agency had hoped to cut smoking to 15 percent...