Word: sluggishly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...promises seemed to lag behind reality. Unemployment stood at 1.05 million (4.8% of the work force); inflation, down a mere half-point since Barre took over 17 months ago, is still racing along at an annual rate of 9%, and the economic growth rate creeped at a sluggish 3%. The irony was that despite the falling out between Marchais and Mitterrand, the latest polls showed a 51% to 45% voter preference for the left. The two-phase elections, however, will not necessarily produce like results. Referring to Marchais's intransigence, a Socialist leader last week sized up the prospects...
Harvard was plagued by fouls in the first half as they racked up 13 to ENC's three. Sluggish passing and an injury to Curry also took their toll on the Crimson. With six minutes gone in the first period, Curry took a hard fall and sprained her ankle, leaving the team without her services for the rest of the game...
...crickets. Then strange things start to happen: the child's electric toys begin to stir, household appliances go haywire, and objects start moving about in the air. The fearless boy is amused and seems to notice a mysterious presence in the room. The commotion ceases, and the child's sluggish mother awakens only in time to run after her little boy who has gone trampsing across the fields after the mysterious night visitor yelling, "Wait for me, wait...
After a scoreless first half marred by sloppy play, the Bullpups got THE break that often decides Yale-Harvard epics. Todd Elkins' fumble of a Yale punt put the sluggish Eli offense in business deep in Crimson territory...
Like other steelmakers, Bethlehem has been hurt by strikes in coal and iron-ore mines, sluggish orders from the construction and capital-goods industries - and most of all by fierce competition from low-priced steel made in Europe and Japan...