Word: sluggish
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...auto company losses continued, the Reagan Administration finally won an agreement with the Japanese government for a "voluntary" cutback of up to three years in the number of autos exported to the U.S. Meanwhile, Detroit was preparing for this week's launching of the latest answer to sluggish auto sales and the Japanese imports: the General Motors J-cars...
...laxwomen looked sluggish from the outset, forcing passes and not using the full length of the field against the tight Husky zone defense. But the dazzling Den Hartog eventually took things into her own hands at 22:15 with a blistering "now-you-see-it-now-you're down-1-0" shot over the Northeastern goalie, Phyllis Kossak's, left shoulder...
...Three American nuns and a lay religious worker were murdered in El Salvador last December by a right-wing death squad. Though the junta's investigation into the deaths has been sluggish, John Bushnell, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, defended the inquiry last week as "thorough...
Taken together, the two statements were seen by some U.S. analysts as an attempt to forestall a costly upward spiral of the arms race. That is something that Moscow, which has to deal with an expensive war in Afghanistan and a sluggish economy at home, can ill afford. "Having listened to President Reagan's plans for the military budget," speculates U.S. Kremlinologist S. Frederick Starr, "Brezhnev knows that a similar [Soviet defense] effort would be painful and dangerous domestically...
...Sluggish is probably the most charitable word to characterize the Crimson in Saturday's game. Use unintense, and unmotivated as well...