Word: sluggish
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...reasonably well,” Taylor said. “I was a little bit sluggish. I don’t know—I crossed the finish line in [56.28] yesterday and I felt I could run at least a second faster...
...have fallen off. The graves in the basement are off-limits, the entrance blocked with untidy wire mesh. The inner sanctum smells of bats and pigeon droppings. Enormous beehives hang from the arches; black smoke stains mark where others have been burned off. The river behind the tomb is sluggish from sewage...
...what they dub the Clinton economic slowdown. (Most economists blame the tax cut and the slowdown for the surplus shrinkage.) And the G.O.P. points out that even a reduced, $160 billion surplus amounts to the second largest ever. Republicans predict that Bush's tax rebate will soon give the sluggish economy a lift, generating more growth and higher tax receipts. And they claim that the real goal of the Democrats is to repeal Bush's tax cut. As Senator Pete Domenici, the ranking Republican on the Senate Budget Committee, put it, "If you really want to drive this country into...
...discouraged from innovating, they don't build new businesses at home. And if there's no building, people can't get jobs or pay raises. Underemployed people don't shop much, so local retailers and consumer product companies suffer too, leaving nobody to take up the slack from sluggish exports...
...whatever changes are necessary to bring LaGuardia back to something resembling normalcy. "We have proposed both market solutions and administrative tools to get the carrier to use LaGuardia more efficiently," says Neil Levin, the recently installed head of the Port Authority, who brings a businessman's impatience to the sluggish world of aviation policy. Levin seems to be itching to do something soon, and is not opposed to using strongarm tactics to accomplish his goal. One page of options from Levin's office boldly states that the Port will "eliminate the use of commuter aircraft" in an airline's reserved...