Word: sluggish
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...House Speaker Carl Albert and Majority Leader Thomas P. ("Tip") O'Neill. With the election of 75 new Democratic Congressmen in November, the pressures for change mounted. But when they finally burst the restraints of tradition last week, the results were astonishing. For the House, that glacially sluggish institution, it amounted to a revolution...
...puritanical manner, in which Davies warned the world against the imminent dangers of demon alcohol, while keyboard man John Gosling tinkled the ivories in such a fashion as to mock good-naturedly the somber scenario Davies tried to conjure up. The song's crapulous ambiance was supported by the sluggish, drawn out tempo of the Dixieland horn section and Davies's possibly unintentional slurring of the lyrics (by that time he had quite a bit to drink). Since the previously established snail's pace of the tune did not lend itself to a final ritard, the tune did not lend...
...energy crisis in the winter of 1974-75--this time, an impending shortage of coal-produced electricity instead of Arab-imported oil--poses most of the same threats to a sluggish economy its predecessor did, but fewer inscrutable mysteries. It is not foreign in origin. It is not contingent upon (or confused by) questions of finding new fuel sources. Most experts agree that America sits upon coal seams extensive enough to meet its needs for 80 to 100 years. It has a definite point of origin--November 12, the Tuesday when 120,000 coal-mining members of the United Mine...
What really happened that night on Chappaquiddick five years ago, when Mary Jo Kopechne drowned and Edward Kennedy's career nearly perished? To this day the full truth is obscure. The official investigation was sluggish, Kennedy and other witnesses evasive, and journalists lost interest after a few months. This year, however, a number of publications, anticipating Kennedy's presidential candidacy in 1976, started new inquiries. Last week the Boston Globe published the results of the most exhaustive of the current investigations. The densely packed five-part series further undermined Kennedy's sworn version of the events before...
When these valves become inflamed-it may be from injury, infection, some forms of cancer or simply sluggish blood flow from inactivity-some blood is likely to be trapped in a pocket where it forms a clot. The danger then is that the clot, or thrombus, will begin to travel toward the heart and lungs...