Word: sluggish
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There was some rain, however, on the parade. The train's late arrival, sluggish traffic, technical problems at the Garden, and some real rain delayed the parade for three-and-a-half hours and dampened parade watchers' spirits. Many left before the parade started...
...problems of debtor countries have been compounded by sluggish growth rates that cripple their ability to repay loans. The troubled nations must boost export sales to raise more money, but that has grown increasingly difficult. One hindrance has been the rise of protectionist sentiment in the industrial world. Another is the falling price of many Third World exports, ranging from coffee to copper and tin. Mexico, which depends on oil for most of its export income, has suffered a 13.5% drop in petroleum sales this year...
Despite Hotchkin's and Kenworthy's best efforts, Harvard couldn't convert on a number of key opportunities in the contest, and the sluggish Crimson offense couldn't match the Big Red's, which peppered Ginsburg with 11 shots...
...stickwomen, failing to capitalize on 10 penalty corners and an often sluggish Penn defense, lost their second game in a row--and their Ivy League opener--and dropped to 0-4-1. The Quakers improved their record to 3-2 (2-0 in the Ivy League...
...most recent quarter, the first red ink in the company's history. The firm is still recovering from a sweeping corporate housecleaning this summer in which 1,200 of Apple's 5,850 employees were let go. The company's woes, moreover, have occurred against a backdrop of sluggish sales throughout Silicon Valley and the entire computer industry. The beleaguered firm thus cannot take lightly even the symbolic threat posed by Jobs' new company, which will produce computers for the education market, long an Apple specialty...