Word: sluggishly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Here, prices are substantially lower than those for 19th century works, making them ideal entry points for the new collector, but not for jittery investors. Consider these risks: Robert Frost brings 25% less than he did a decade ago, Hemingway is barely holding, and Faulkner is sluggish. On the other hand, Wallace Stevens' rare first volume, Harmonium, $2 when published in 1923, can bring $800. The far more recent works of John Updike, John Cheever and Saul Bellow have done nearly as well. Some sharp collectors bought John Gardner's first novel, The Resurrection (1972), for cut-rate...
...Crimson displayed its inertia in this weekend's trip to Columbia and Penn. In both New York and Philadelphia, the batsmen split doubleheaders, dropping the opener and then capturing the nightcap. In all four games, Harvard came alive in the late innings after sluggish starts...
Only the match which pitted Harvard's number-one pair of Sands and Beren against the Quaker Riley Friedman duo caused any trouble in doubles competition. After dropping the first set in dual sluggish performances, Sands and Beren quickly turned the tables and took the match...
...laxwomen seemed sluggish as they attempted to tally an insurance goal to pad the one goal advantage. Hampered by sloppy passing (a whopping 43 turnovers on the game) and poor shooting, the Crimson couldn't manage anything in the way of offensive firepower. Stevens eventually tied the game for UMass at 9:31, and on the ensuing faceoff. Moryl controlled the ball for the Minutewomen, streaked down the field and beat Worsley to the left side. The goal gave the Minutewomen a lead they would never relinquish...
...succeeded to, but the doomed way they imitated his attempt to rule against the government." The possibility that the national legislative machinery has grown too large to control is never raised. In Wills' view, later Presidents were mesmerized by the example of John Kennedy, not frustrated by the sluggish response that met their own commands...