Word: sluggishly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were kind of sluggish," Jones said. "We weren't really into it and we didn't really have the kind of intensity of the last week...
Despite Washington's unhappiness over trade, there was some good economic news last week. The Commerce Department reported that the U.S. economy, which grew at a sluggish 2.5% rate last year, expanded at an annual rate of 4.3% for the first three months of 1987. But the seemingly strong showing, largely due to an increase in unsold goods, may be reversed in the second quarter. If so, U.S. officials will feel even more pressed to find a resolution to the troubling trade issues...
With only two days of preparation for its spring season opener, the Harvard men's rugby club's offensive attach was expected to be sluggish...
...swings. For the U.S., another goal of the session was to persuade Japan and West Germany to stimulate their economies. That would boost their imports of American products and help ease the U.S. trade deficit, which reached a record $170 billion last year. Higher exports would also spur the sluggish U.S. economy. The gross national product grew at an annual rate of only 1.3% in the fourth quarter of 1986, the Government reported last week...
Karajan and Mozart were both born in Salzburg, but that seems to be about all they have in common. Karajan's readings of his countryman's ineffable music have always been heavy and rhythmically sluggish, bereft of joy or bounce. His new recording, a warm-up for his production of the opera in Salzburg this spring and summer, never comes to fiery, diabolical life. It wastes the . talents of Ramey and Battle, and features an excruciating performance by Tomowa-Sintow as the hectoring, humorless Donna Anna. Far more harmonious is Battle's recording from her 1984 recital at Karajan...