Word: sluggish
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...slice it, the economy is sluggish. But last week the Commerce Department began highlighting the gross domestic product instead of the more familiar gross national product as its preferred gauge of the economy's health. Both measure the total output of goods and services. But the GNP, in use since 1941, covers production by a country's workers wherever they are in the world. The GDP, which the rest of the industrialized world uses, covers only the production within a nation's borders. Unfortunately, this statistical lens doesn't improve the current picture. The new figures show the economy grew...
...more physical play and the rebound of Ron Mitchell from a sluggish start should help the Crimson re-establish itself in the paint
...Crimson would be sorry that it had let the sluggish Bears back into the game. On Brown's next power play, a Harvard bench minor, Bears' center, feisty 5'8", 170-lb Joey Beck, ripped a low, fast wrist shot by Roy's left pad to cut the Harvard lead to one goal, 3-2, leading into the second intermission...
...confidence sagged in October to levels not seen since the height of the Persian Gulf war, and the unemployment rate for the month crept up 0.1%, to 6.8%. Even normally reticent Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan admitted in a speech last week that the economy had recently turned "demonstrably sluggish...
...Bush, who in the midst of a sluggish recovery can neither pass out tax cuts nor launch spending programs to promote economic growth, the council is "the only game in town," an official said. "The one thing that can cause George Bush problems in 1992 is the recession." The council also exemplifies Bush's have-half approach to political problems. In 1992 he can run as an environmentalist while telling industrialists he's on their side...