Word: sluggish
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...sluggish. Neither team played very well, but we did have a good spurt near the end of the first half to pull away. It was a good game to get rid of first game jitters," she said last night...
...cliches, but he doesn't poke fun at them; he piles them on as if to show how much he can get away with. Movies like this aren't very entertaining if they're not stylish or suspenseful; Crichton's stupid, stilted dialogue precludes style; the Mission: Impossible predictability, sluggish editing, and surprising number of loose ends strangle suspense. Characters inexplicably appear and disappear--dragged in when convenient and cruelly discarded two minutes later--and the lapses in logic suggest the film was mauled in the editing room...
...productivity been so sluggish? Groping for explanations, economists cite a variety of possible factors, from drug abuse to the doctrines of John Maynard Keynes?which, some contend, led policymakers to pay too much attention to manipulation of total demand in the economy and too little to productivity...
Even if all these strategies were adopted overnight, speeding up productivity might well take a discouragingly long time. The '70s lag in investment and R. and D., in particular, will go on harming productivity well into the '80s. But the effort must be started. A long period of sluggish productivity would mean an era of slow growth, little or no rise in living standards, persistent unemployment and high inflation?just like the '70s, only worse...
...After a sluggish start which ended in a 3-4 record before vacation, the Crimson women returned to the basketball court fresh from the rest, and the Harvard opposition shuddered as the team took a four-game blitzkrieg into exams, upping their results to a fine 7-4 mark...