Word: sluggishly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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INDIANAPOLIS--New England quarterback Tony Eason yesterday passed for 292 yards and four touchdowns, three of them to Derrick Ramsey in the first half, as the Patriots cruised to an easy 50-17 National Football League victory over the sluggish Indianapolis Colts...
...TIME board recognized that Pacific prosperity is closely linked to the U.S. economic expansion. Growth in Western Europe and most other parts of the world is still sluggish. Said Lawrence Krause, a senior fellow at the Brookings...
...country's trading partners think that the Japanese should spend their surplus by sharply boosting imports. But Japan's demand for foreign goods continues to be sluggish, partly because its people are notoriously thrifty, saving about 15% of their personal income...
Taiwan is worried about becoming too dependent on the U.S. market. Americans have bought 49% of Taiwan's exports this year, up from 39% in 1983. The country's sales to Western Europe have been sluggish because the value of the Taiwan dollar, like the U.S. dollar, has risen sharply during the past year against European currencies. As a result, Taiwan's products have become more expensive for Europeans. In addition, slumping oil prices have hurt the buying power of Taiwan's customers in the Middle East...
...impact on poverty. In fact, the percentage of the population living below the poverty line, currently set at an income of $10,178 for a family of four, rose from 12.6% in 1970 to 13% by 1980. Murray contends that this lack of progress cannot be blamed on a sluggish economy. The annual growth of the gross national product averaged 3.2% in the 1970s, a faster pace than in the Eisenhower years, when the prevalence of poverty declined. Murray, however, does not fully address the argument that growth was sporadic during the 1970s and that wage increases were badly eroded...