Word: sluggishly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...computer services. "It's frequently not very much fun," warns Stewart Alsop, who does much of the research and correspondence for his biweekly P.C. Letter on the networks and still gets lost in their labyrinthine menus. Consumers who shop by keyboard complain that on-line service can be sluggish and undependable. Orders placed electronically may reach retailers in a flash, but they are often filled by hand and thus subject to human inefficiencies. A Sears color TV that Hovanees ordered through CompuServe's Electronic Mall never did arrive. And, as Peggy Berk can testify, there are special risks in relying...
...Harvard--which had played sluggish, uninspired hockey for the past three weeks--the victory represented a return to the form that lifted it to seven straight victories from early February to the middle of March...
Even though most of the swims on Saturday were a little bit sluggish, Harvard should have no trouble preparing for the Easterns--especially after the left-right combo dealt to them three weeks ago, when Princeton and Cornell edged out decisions over the Crimson on consecutive weekends...
Hosting the Big Red for the second time in five nights, the Crimson (now 18-8) was never really able to get anything going on offense, surviving a sluggish first half and staying on top largely on the strength of Beth Chandler's 6-of-6 free throw shooting down the stretch...
...space shuttle Challenger were two veteran TIME space watchers: Correspondent Jerry Hannifin and Photographer Ralph Morse. Between them they have logged nearly six decades covering the U.S. space program. As Morse peered through his telephoto lens at the swiftly rising Challenger, he remarked that the lift-off appeared sluggish. "Don't kid yourself," said Morse. "They're in trouble up there...