Word: sluggishly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agency's ousted assistant administrator, Rita Lavelle, violated conflict-of-interest laws. In addition, the Administration agreed to settle the case of EPA Whistle Blower Hugh Kaufman, who had charged that Lavelle and other agency officials had harassed him after he publicly criticized the EPA'S sluggish record on purging poisonous wastes. Kaufman's "unsatisfactory" rating was The struck and his pay made...
...cost falls below that level, oil companies will probably begin to buy aggressively, and the price will stabilize. Theoretically, a $2 reduction in the crude price could mean about a 5? drop in the price of a gallon of gasoline. Because of sluggish demand, gas prices have already been drifting down from an average of $1.29 per gal. a year ago to $1.18 per gal. now. At a few stations in some areas, gasoline now sells for less than $1 per gal. for the first time in more than three years...
...charging a high enough premium to satisfy the Saudis. At the Geneva meeting, Yamani demanded that the Africans raise their prices in order to keep the Saudis from being noncompetitive when they try to sell their less desirable crude. The Africans balked at boosting prices at a time of sluggish demand, and the meeting disintegrated into a raucous round of name-calling. At one point, Yamani reportedly shouted: "I am a man of the desert, and nobody is going to laugh at my beard." That was the Arab equivalent of saying, "Nobody is going to take advantage...
Sure enough, a sluggish Crimson suffered the next night from the multiple torments of an exhausting trip, upcoming finals and the Cornell heartbreaker. Center Monroe Trout did not start, still nursing a sore ankle he reinjured in the first half at Ithaca...
Beneath an asthmatic fan, the pianist eases from a tired collection of pop tunes to Elgar's Land of Hope and Glory. It is a curious switch because there is hardly any glory in the seedy Kinshasa bar near the banks of the sluggish Zaïre River and little hope for the country that bears the river's name. Though its debts are small on an international scale-only $5.1 billion-Zaïre is a financial basket case, a country so broke, so mismanaged, so beset by the global recession and, ultimately, so corrupt that...