Word: sluggish
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...country at the start of the day, faced the Eagles (2-4) in Washington, D.C. in its first dual meet of the season, the team had already blended veteran dominance with its considerable freshman talent in several tournament successes. Yesterday, the Crimson struggled through a sluggish performance in the nation’s capital. “I don’t think we wrestled stupid,” tri-captain Max Meltzer said. “We just weren’t hungry and we were not wrestling well in general.” Specifically, Crimson head coach...
...uses for public transportation can cost $1 or more--an exorbitant sum when you're living on $1 or less a day. Because the government's telecommunications agency wants more money than Mohapi's budget allows to set up high-speed Internet access, the clinic still depends on a sluggish dial-up connection. Meanwhile, the center has become a de facto emergency room for the neighborhood--further evidence of the fragile state of basic health care in the region...
...even that powerful opposition may not be enough: polls show Michigan voters closely divided over the issue, with 41% supporting the ban, 44% opposing, and about 15% still undecided. The opposition to the measure got off to a sluggish start. Affirmative action proponents intended to raise more than $5 million to saturate the airwaves against Connerly's group, which only has about $2 million, but have only collected about $3 million thus far. "Nobody pays attention until the last month," said Debbie Dingell, a top GM official and co-chair of the One United Michigan campaign, which is organizing...
...Crimson offense, hampered a bit by the sluggish conditions on the pitch, was fairly pedestrian during the first half of play. Harvard managed to grab the early advantage through a goal by freshman forward Andre Akpan in the 28th minute but missed an opportunity to double their lead after junior forward Matt Hoff hit the cross bar on a penalty kick...
...chorus of n-o-o-o-s. "Not you," the man says. "You're brand new." Obama wanders into a casual disquisition about the sluggish nature of democracy. The answer is not even remotely a standard, pretaped political response. He moves through some fairly arcane turf, talking about how political gerrymandering has led to a generation of politicians who come from safe districts where they don't have to consider the other side of the debate, which has made compromise--and therefore legislative progress--more difficult. "That's why I favored Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposal last year, a nonpartisan commission...