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...robust as it seems. The Department of Commerce reported last week that the gross national product expanded at a 3.7% annual rate during the first quarter. The strong showing, though, was partly caused by an increase in unsold business inventories. This inventory buildup, the result of sluggish consumer demand, could be a sign of an underlying economic weakness...
Several factors are driving ad agencies into a pattern of expansion by acquisition. For one, industry profits dipped 1.5% last year, in part because the economy was sluggish and client companies curbed their advertising budgets as a cost-cutting measure. In response, many ad agencies are resorting to mergers as a way of sustaining their revenue growth...
...Crimson (5-2 overall) played a sluggish second half and failed to hold off a late-game scoring rush from the pumped-up Elis, who captured a 13-9 decision in New Haven, Conn...
...computer services. "It's frequently not very much fun," warns Stewart Alsop, who does much of the research and correspondence for his biweekly P.C. Letter on the networks and still gets lost in their labyrinthine menus. Consumers who shop by keyboard complain that on-line service can be sluggish and undependable. Orders placed electronically may reach retailers in a flash, but they are often filled by hand and thus subject to human inefficiencies. A Sears color TV that Hovanees ordered through CompuServe's Electronic Mall never did arrive. And, as Peggy Berk can testify, there are special risks in relying...
...Harvard--which had played sluggish, uninspired hockey for the past three weeks--the victory represented a return to the form that lifted it to seven straight victories from early February to the middle of March...