Word: sluggishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stickwomen, failing to capitalize on 10 penalty corners and an often sluggish Penn defense, lost their second game in a row--and their Ivy League opener--and dropped to 0-4-1. The Quakers improved their record to 3-2 (2-0 in the Ivy League...
...most recent quarter, the first red ink in the company's history. The firm is still recovering from a sweeping corporate housecleaning this summer in which 1,200 of Apple's 5,850 employees were let go. The company's woes, moreover, have occurred against a backdrop of sluggish sales throughout Silicon Valley and the entire computer industry. The beleaguered firm thus cannot take lightly even the symbolic threat posed by Jobs' new company, which will produce computers for the education market, long an Apple specialty...
...criticize dead or deposed leaders and quite another to chastise those in power. Last week Yevtushenko, 52, who once was considered a daring anti-Establishment voice in his country, demonstrated anew his recognition of that crucial difference. Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper, published a Yevtushenko poem that condemns the sluggish bureaucracy that General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev repeatedly has blamed for blocking economic progress. Wrote Yevtushenko: "They jammed sticks/ in the wheels of the first locomotive/ to make sure it wouldn't work,/ quacks gripped the surgeon's knife/ when he cut on a heart/ to save a man's life...
...Four's boomlet, though, could be followed by a bust. The cut-rate financing applies only to 1985-model cars. When the incentives expire at the end of September, dealers will face the more difficult task of selling 1986- model autos without attractive financing. In the midst of a sluggish economy and rising Japanese competition, that will be a very grueling demolition derby indeed...
...Pittsburgh strike could send a jolt of energy to other sluggish branches of the labor movement. If the strikers make some gains, and the company doesn't fold, others--especially in the growing service sector--will realize the importance of union organization. Rather than a resurgence of the labor movement, Pittsburgh and other recent strikes serve as tests for the future. Just about every worker sometime in his or her lifetime will have to confront an unfair management move, whether it be during an economic revovery or a recession. But whatever the time, workers can never hope to succeed...