Word: sluggish
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...parietals pressure group was sluggish getting going and there was plenty of doubt whether more than a handful of students would agree to civil disobedience on so parochial an issue. Then came...
Children's Crusade. Worldwide, this has been the year of student power. Taking to the streets to engage in bloody combat with police, students triggered a crisis for the Fifth Republic in France, contributed to the liberalization of Czechoslovakia, challenged the authoritarianism of Spain, and assailed the sluggish social institutions of West Germany. At home, the spontaneous "children's crusade" of college kids was largely responsible for making Senator Eugene McCarthy into a serious candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination...
Laborites had expected at least small losses in Britain's local elections, chiefly because of the sluggish economy and austerity at home, but they experienced a shocker. From one end of Britain to the other, voters toppled Labor from control of town halls...
...Ford, with record first-quarter sales of $3.9 billion, up 36% from last year's sluggish first period, earned $222 million-an 84% increase that beat General Motors' 17% profit rise (to $457 million) but not Chrysler's impressive 280% jump (to $69.3 million) over the same quarter last year, when it was hit by an unusually severe combination of higher costs, lower sales...
...citizenship. But the majority of Asians, roughly 100,000 out of about 160,000, took the British option. With vivid memories of the slaughter of Arabs on the nearby island of Zanzibar in 1962, they feared future instances of African racism and xenophobia. Also, it was clear that the sluggish economy could not create enough jobs for both Black and Brown. Asians planned to stay in Kenya as long as their jobs or business lasted, for they knew that British citizenship offered them a place to go if they had to leave Africa...