Word: sluggish
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With only two days of preparation for its spring season opener, the Harvard men's rugby club's offensive attach was expected to be sluggish...
...swings. For the U.S., another goal of the session was to persuade Japan and West Germany to stimulate their economies. That would boost their imports of American products and help ease the U.S. trade deficit, which reached a record $170 billion last year. Higher exports would also spur the sluggish U.S. economy. The gross national product grew at an annual rate of only 1.3% in the fourth quarter of 1986, the Government reported last week...
Karajan and Mozart were both born in Salzburg, but that seems to be about all they have in common. Karajan's readings of his countryman's ineffable music have always been heavy and rhythmically sluggish, bereft of joy or bounce. His new recording, a warm-up for his production of the opera in Salzburg this spring and summer, never comes to fiery, diabolical life. It wastes the . talents of Ramey and Battle, and features an excruciating performance by Tomowa-Sintow as the hectoring, humorless Donna Anna. Far more harmonious is Battle's recording from her 1984 recital at Karajan...
...court, Hollensteiner looks sluggish, awkward...
...policy of glasnost, or openness, that is changing, at least superficially, dozens of areas of Soviet life. His ultimate goal, which he spelled out last week in the clearest terms to date, is nothing less than a transformation of Soviet society, one that will speed up the country's sluggish economic growth and modernize its aging institutions...