Word: sluggishness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bevan by temperament was an artist rather than a politician, and he sought his friends not among the worthy pedants of social reform in the "slouching, sluggish" Labor Party leadership but among artists like Jacob Epstein, writers like H. G. Wells, or even with an aristocrat turned columnist like Lord Castlerosse. Bevan behaved as if his own talent and exuberance gave him a spectator's seat rather than an underdog's role in the old British game of class soccer. After a fine meal with good wine he would quip: "You can always live like a millionaire...
...through tourist trade is off 40%, and New Orleans lost an American Legion convention with 70,000 potential customers because that city's hotels are segregated (the Legion shifted to Miami Beach, which began to cross the color line in 1958). Sales of Southern school-bond issues are sluggish. Businessmen are also aware that no new factories came to Little Rock for two years after its 1957 crisis...
...Tory history, but few Conservatives want him in command of their next election campaign; even pre-Profumo, the party had been in bad trouble over defense muddles, Britain's failure to enter the Common Market, and above all Macmillan's stop-and-go fiscal policies and a sluggish economy...
Disposable Parts. Research was also the passion of the company's founder, Andre Citroen, a high-living production and promotion wizard who revamped France's sluggish artillery-shell plants in World War I, later introduced Henry Ford's mass-production techniques to begin his auto firm. He advertised with songs and skywriting, once had the Eiffel Tower strung with 250,000 lights that spelled CITROEN. But he spent even more lavishly on development and the Deauville gaming tables, lost control of the company to the more staid and highly secretive Tiremaker Michelin in 1934, and died heartbroken...
After earning tall profits and extravagant criticism in times past, scrapmen are now faced with soft demand and sluggish prices. No company has been hit harder than Manhattan's Ogden Corp., the world's biggest scrap company. Last month Ogden reported that sales-30% from scrap and the rest from other activities-dropped from $436 million in 1961 to $406 million last year; its Luria scrap division lost money for the first time in its 74-year history. Ogden's candid President Ralph Ablon, 46, admits that the scrapmen's current troubles stem partly from their...