Word: sluggish
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Their specialist did hold out one faint hope. In the future, he said, for men with few or sluggish sperm that could not penetrate egg cells on their own, scientists might be able to help fertilization take place by injecting a single sperm cell into an egg. At the time, that sounded futuristic even to a medical man like Jim. But he and Sarah took their doctor's advice, stopped trying to conceive through in vitro and kept Jim's last remaining samples frozen at the sperm bank...
...sick after E.coli contaminated lunches showed up in Sakai, about 300 miles west of Tokyo. Now, after taking some time to understand the seriousness of the disease, tense federal health officials are examining hundreds of school lunches, disinfecting the schools and treating the sick for free. The sluggish response to the infection is raising questions about the Japanese government's ability to cope with medical emergencies. "The World Health Organization says this outbreak is the worst in modern history," reports TIME's Frank Gibney from Tokyo. "The culprit is a particularly virulent strain of e.Coli bacteria that originates in animal...
Although it battled to a respectable 2-2 tie with Colgate, Harvard appeared intimidated and sluggish the next day when it dropped its first game of the year, 5-3, to Cornell...
...Howard Lincoln, chairman of Nintendo of America, was convinced that his core audience--twitchy-fingered boys between eight years old and their first date--would be underwhelmed by the quality of games that can be delivered on cd-roms, silvery storage platters that have enormous capacity but are notoriously sluggish. Lincoln decided that his best chance to deliver game play so startling that his target market would feel they just had to have it was to concentrate on speed--sticking to fast (but expensive) silicon cartridges as his storage medium and leapfrogging ahead to the next-generation 64-bit processors...
With earthquakes, riots, recession and residents fleeing en masse, the past few years have been tough for the Golden State. But now there's some good news: after a sluggish slog through 2% and 1% growth in the early '90's, the nation's most populous state is also among the top ten with the fastest growing incomes...