Word: sluggish
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...After a sluggish start in which the Eagles stayed close on the Crimson's heels, Harvard's competitive fire came alive during the last few minutes of the game...
...reason: productivity. For more than two decades, through the mid-1990s, the output of goods and services per worker hour rose at a sluggish pace. But it is now riding what Feldstein calls a "rising wave." Productivity increased 5% last year, and is still accelerating through the slowdown; in the second quarter of this year it shot up at an annual rate of 5.7%. One result: though "tight labor markets are pushing up wages at a faster and faster clip," says Feldstein, unit labor costs--what employers pay out in wages and benefits for each pound of plastics produced...
...With action maestro John Woo at the helm and a budget twice the size of a third world country, Mission: Impossible 2 should have been the summer's most unrelenting joyride. Instead we got a sluggish, often dim-witted action picture that wasn't even as enjoyable as the first Mission: Impossible. What happened? Well, you can start with the fact that Robert Towne, the man wrote Chinatown for God's sake, was apparently uninspired to do anything more with the screenplay than rip off Notorious and throw in a limp virus thriller. Then you can blame Tom Cruise...
Though the class's scope--a spry mix of classics, convicts, and the famously defiant--may discourage the sluggish, the burden falls square with most Moral Reasoning cores: two five- to-seven page papers, short response papers graded with checks and midterm and final exams...
...that will be the hard part, as it becomes clear that the company was at the very least sluggish, if not obdurate, in responding to mounting evidence that its 15-in. ATX, ATXII and certain Wilderness AT tires were shredding at abnormally high rates. At least six months before Firestone launched the recall of 6.5 million defective tires in early August, it was aware of a steep rise in the number of warranty, damage and injury claims involving tread separations on those suspect models, according to confidential company reports released by congressional investigators. Firestone, which has argued that it didn...