Word: sluggish
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...price of prestige plunged last week. Faced with sluggish sales, the U.S. distributor for Britain's Rolls-Royce Motors, makers of the world's most elegant line of automobiles, slashed prices on all Rolls models. The cost of a sleek Silver Spirit, the cheapest Rolls, dropped from $111,000 to $93,000, while the price for a top-of-the-line Corniche convertible fell from...
Despite a sluggish start, which left the Radcliffe-crew a seat behind the B.U. squad, the Crimson team's steady, controlled style enabled the Cantabs to pull ahead by two seats midway through the race and hold on to that lead until the end of the race...
...promote productivity, have been cast aside. Instead, in keeping with Deng's dictum that "a cat, whether black or white, is a good one as long as it catches mice," the government has turned to such capitalistic devices as bonuses, commissions and competition to rejuvenate China's sluggish economy...
...agency's ousted assistant administrator, Rita Lavelle, violated conflict-of-interest laws. In addition, the Administration agreed to settle the case of EPA Whistle Blower Hugh Kaufman, who had charged that Lavelle and other agency officials had harassed him after he publicly criticized the EPA'S sluggish record on purging poisonous wastes. Kaufman's "unsatisfactory" rating was The struck and his pay made...
...cost falls below that level, oil companies will probably begin to buy aggressively, and the price will stabilize. Theoretically, a $2 reduction in the crude price could mean about a 5? drop in the price of a gallon of gasoline. Because of sluggish demand, gas prices have already been drifting down from an average of $1.29 per gal. a year ago to $1.18 per gal. now. At a few stations in some areas, gasoline now sells for less than $1 per gal. for the first time in more than three years...