Word: sluggish
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...race was close if slow for the first three miles over sluggish Moakley Golf Course. But as the harriers descended into Cornell's famed gorge, Harvard began to pull ahead. Finally, with manager Sue Barton screaming him on, sophomore Bruce Weber sprinted the last 500 yards of straightaway, passing Cornell's Harv Robinson to gain his first varsity victory ever...
...inevitable: that a package of $280 billion in tax cuts and $130 billion in spending cuts over three years passed in July was certain to swell budget deficits far beyond what had been anticipated. The bond and stock markets have slipped dramatically since then in anticipation of a sluggish economy, continued high interest rates and a 1982 deficit that analysts feared might top $60 billion. Alice Rivlin, head of the Congressional Budget Office, accepted that figure. So did one of Reagan's unofficial economic advisers, Alan Greenspan...
...does the movie version, with Robert Duvall as Tom and Robert De Niro as Des, proceed at the sluggish pace of a Sodality novena? Perhaps because Dunne's collaborator on the screenplay was his wife, the Empress of Angst, Novelist Joan Didion. Onscreen, characters who should percolate with rage simply simmer. Two exciting, dangerous actors have little to do: Duvall spends too much time pacing and waiting; De Niro's big scene has him hanging up his vestments...
Soft of voice and mild in manner, Attorney General William French Smith was chided by White House aides during his early months in office for sleepwalking through his job and being notably sluggish in guiding the Justice Department by the lights of Reagan philosophy. The Reaganites grumbled that the department was veering "out of control" and complained that Smith was failing to make his career bureaucrats toe the conservative line...
...immediately pounced on the problems that they saw as inherent in Reaganomics. They charged that the Administration was papering over the fundamental conflict between the President's main goals-stimulating the economy by cutting taxes and slowing down inflation through tight money-resulting in high interest rates and sluggish growth. Compounding the difficulty was Reagan's proposal for a large and simultaneous increase in defense spending...