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...presidential campaign of 1981, François Mitterrand sharply criticized that pell-mell pace, partly because a sluggish economy had dampened demand for electricity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: From Paris to Peking, Fission Is Still in Fashion | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

...minivan's lower profile pay off in fuel economy. The new models get 37 m.p.g. on the highway, compared with 18 m.p.g. for the larger vans. But the new vans can carry only 1,700 lbs., vs. 2,600 lbs. for the bigger versions. Acceleration is also somewhat sluggish, since the minivans use the same 2.2-liter engine as Chrysler's small K-cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Maxirush to Chrysler's Minivans | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

After that, the Harvard offense went into hibernation. "We were sluggish," Cleary said afterwards...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: Icemen Stretch Ivy Lead As Blair Stops Elis, 2-1 | 2/6/1984 | See Source »

...Harvard was left in the wake between two steller squads and a number of sluggish opponents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tracksters Finish in Back of the Pack | 2/6/1984 | See Source »

...positions. Not only is the technique itself out of fashion and quite trite, but the actual dancing was careless. The dancers were not synchronized not did they seem confident in their movements and gestures. Only two dancers, Christine Spizzo and an inspiring Carla Stallings, altered the monotony of the sluggish variations the dancers performed. They were also the only two dancers who seemed to have the most challenging combination, which probably worked to their advantage...

Author: By Andrea Fastenberg, | Title: Comme Ci, Comme Ca | 2/3/1984 | See Source »

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