Word: sluggish
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Euphorically, some people are even beginning to wonder what society might be like without the poor. Would they be missed? After all, the poor provide often beneficial political ferment and a useful troubling of the sluggish conscience. The ancient prophets, and a great many modern ones, were kept in business largely by the poor. In his new book, The Accidental Century, Michael Harrington speculates that "there could be a new, unimpoverished political equivalent of the poor," composed of middle-class people threatened in their jobs by automation and cybernation...
...eyes of most investors were on New York last week, where the long-sluggish Dow-Jones industrials managed a six-point gain for the week. In 13 other cities throughout the nation, however, stock activity was just as spirited and satisfaction just as solid as on the floor of the Big Board. These are the sites of the regional exchanges, a series of smaller but important stock exchanges that serve U.S. companies and investors from Honolulu to Boston...
Shot down over Italy in 1943, Colonel Joseph L. Ryan (Frank Sinatra) is sent to an Italian prisoner-of-war camp where he outranks and outrages a stuffy British major (Trevor Howard) and soon earns the prefix "Von" from the British and Americans he pushes around. After a sluggish beginning, Express starts to swing, and Frank swings with it, when the 400 Anglo-American prisoners are caught between retreating Germans and advance units of the U.S. infantry. After a day of freedom, the men are recaptured by Germans and packed into a freight train bound for the fatherland. They manage...
...Real Raid. Simon is a constant and shrewd reader of profit and loss statements. He looks for companies with broad stock ownership, shares undervalued in relation to book values, sluggish management and sickly earnings. If he finds a likely case, he may dispatch aides to probe the situation deeper, use his contacts in Wall Street to find out why things are not better than they are. Eventually Simon may make a visit to the company himself?he took eight trips to West Virginia in the course of buying into Wheeling Steel?but his trips are mainly for general impressions rather...
Backfire. The star of this sleek French melodrama is a Triumph sports convertible. Shipped from Barcelona to Beirut, the car gets past customs but has difficulty getting out of town. Sluggish performance. "I can scarcely shift into high," complains the man at the wheel. The svelte blonde smuggler at his side smiles and tells him why. The Triumph has a $300,000 paint job. Under a surface coat of white, its body is gilded with 300 kilos of solid gold...