Word: sluggishly
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...effects of fare wars and sluggish ticket sales, which have buffeted lesser players in the airline business in recent months, finally hit the industry's top tier. Boeing, the world's biggest planemaker, announced that it would lay off 28,000 workers over the next 18 months -- nearly 20% of its total work force. Meanwhile, British Airways, widely touted as "the world's most profitable airline," did manage to report a profit, but barely. Earnings for the third quarter fell to $28.7 million, a stomach-wrenching 80% drop from a year...
...Saturday, a sluggish first half ended with Brown up 30-27. The Bears then came out of the locker room much more quickly than the Crimson, displaying the same quick, aggressive attack that they used to upset Princeton last weekend...
...Crimson looked sluggish against RPI, committing ill-timed penalties and turnovers and succumbing to a fired-up Engineer team at home...
Other economic indicators either remain sluggish now or only improved in the third quarter of this year. The amazing thing about the Republicans' total mental block on this issue is that Kevin P. Phillips, one of their best strategists, had laid out the economic troubles in 1990 and urged the Republicans to do something about them. Small wonder that they lost to a Democrat who assigned Phillips's book to all his campaign staffers...
...other hand the Northeastern squad came out flying in the second half. The Huskies played an intense second half skimming a lot of transition points off a sluggish Crimson squad...