Word: sluggishly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Taken together, the two statements were seen by some U.S. analysts as an attempt to forestall a costly upward spiral of the arms race. That is something that Moscow, which has to deal with an expensive war in Afghanistan and a sluggish economy at home, can ill afford. "Having listened to President Reagan's plans for the military budget," speculates U.S. Kremlinologist S. Frederick Starr, "Brezhnev knows that a similar [Soviet defense] effort would be painful and dangerous domestically...
...Sluggish is probably the most charitable word to characterize the Crimson in Saturday's game. Use unintense, and unmotivated as well...
...answer that question. The group's consensus: though President Reagan's rhetoric may have been a bit overblown, the economy is indeed in serious trouble. Declining productivity, recalcitrant inflation and the explosion of Government spending have so shackled U.S. business that growth will be sluggish well into the future. Moreover, the time left to reverse that course is growing short. Warned Otto Eckstein, president of Data Resources, an economic consulting firm based in Lexington, Mass.: "The federal budget has tremendous upward momentum. Increases in spending can't go on at the rate of the past ten years...
...sluggish economy will be bac news for those looking for a new job. The board believes that unemployment will rise from its current level of 7.4% to 8% by midyear before dropping back to 7.8% at the end of 1981. That will leave about 8 million people jobless for most of this year...
Charlotte A. Lowell, another meeting organizer, cited general students apathy as partly responsible for sluggish government, and added that increased student involvement is necessary to bring about any changes...