Word: sluggish
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...time Joey was 21, he was in trouble with the law, and a court-appointed psychiatrist found him insane. Other mobsters started calling him "Crazy Joe" but never to his face. He was too mean. Joey took pleasure in breaking the arm of one of his clients who was sluggish about paying protection money. He punctured an enemy with ice picks. He had gained his status by serving as one member (Colombo was another) of a five-man execution squad of Mafia Boss Joe Profaci in the late '50s. Police claim they had scored 40 hits. By then...
...When Pope Paul promised in a "pastoral instruction" last summer to improve the often sluggish flow of Vatican news. Press Spokesman Father Edward L. Heston insisted that the Holy See would practice what it preached. Heston, 64, an American priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross, was soon named president of the Pontifical Commission for Social Communications. Since then, Rome newsmen have noted an improvement in the release of Vatican information. Yet Heston observed recently: "Often a sergeant is capable of doing as good a job as a general, but he can't because he doesn't have...
...billion v. earlier predictions of $94 billion to $103 billion. Not all the estimates were lowered on merely technical grounds. Board Member Alan Greenspan sees a slight deterioration in the "quality of the outlook." He cites continued high personal savings rates, less exuberant consumer buying than foreseen in January, sluggish bank-loan demand and slow inventory accumulation...
...means N&W's best year; in 1966 it earned $98 million. But unlike the other large Eastern railroads, which all reported losses after extraordinary expenses last year, N&W had been hit by rail and coal strikes, and by cuts in freight business due to the sluggish economy...
...like the little girl who had a little curl right in the middle of her forehead. When the industry is good, it is very, very good; but when it is bad it is horrid. After nearly two years of being absolutely awful, largely because the U.S. economy was sluggish, the highly cyclical air-travel business appears headed for good times once again...