Word: sluggishly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beat Brown earlier in the year, 10-3, and we went in to this one relaxed and sluggish," said Co-Captain Stacey Moran. "We'd just beaten our 'toughest' competition, and Brown took us by surprise...
...facilitated by the work of Dr. Andrei Snezhnevsky, who was director of the Institute of Psychiatry of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Medical Sciences and who dominated Soviet psychiatry from the early 1950s until his death two years ago. Snezhnevsky considerably broadened the definition of schizophrenia by adding the category "sluggish schizophrenia." He defined the disorder as a slow- developing illness without the hallucinations that are a classic element in the Western definition of many schizophrenias. Instead, the "symptoms" could be nearly all forms of behavior -- unsociability, mild pessimism, stubbornness -- that deviated from the social or political ideal...
...Gorbachev is not so much saying "uncle" to Uncle Sam as he is addressing the failures of the Leninist-Stalinist system. Moreover, he is doing so in a way that is earning him worldwide credit for being flexible and forward-looking, while the U.S. is in danger of appearing sluggish and uncertain...
...offense, hitting against live pitching for the first time this season, was sluggish at times but showed signs of coming around. Three Beth Wambach home runs were especially promising...
...question is, Will the audience go for an interracial soap opera? Perhaps so -- if NBC, lagging last among the networks in daytime viewership, can find the audience in the first place. The constituency keeps shrinking: the valued 18-plus female viewers are going out to jobs; advertising revenues are sluggish. Fighting back, the serials are dealing more and more with issues that were once controversial or plainly taboo: homosexuality, AIDS, child abuse, alcoholism, battered wives...