Word: sluggishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After that, the Harvard offense went into hibernation. "We were sluggish," Cleary said afterwards...
...positions. Not only is the technique itself out of fashion and quite trite, but the actual dancing was careless. The dancers were not synchronized not did they seem confident in their movements and gestures. Only two dancers, Christine Spizzo and an inspiring Carla Stallings, altered the monotony of the sluggish variations the dancers performed. They were also the only two dancers who seemed to have the most challenging combination, which probably worked to their advantage...
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir was also preoccupied with his country's deteriorating economy. Squeezed be tween a record 1983 inflation rate of 200% and a sluggish pace in cost of living pay raises, Israelis are staging impromptu strikes. The country's 4,500 postal workers stayed away from their jobs for three days last week, while 800 Interior Ministry employees walked out on Thursday...
...wines, most notably Italian and lesser-known French vintages, came on the market in increasing volume and at sensible prices. Last year U.S. wine sales went as flat as morning-after champagne. Impact, a reliable industry newsletter, projects that per capita consumption of California wine will increase at the sluggish rate of .7% annually through...
...Crimson's legs carried them to five sweet victories in the running events against the sluggish Eagles, erasing the better memories of a squad that only broke the wire twice against the fast Cadets in its opening meet. Amy Simon set the pace for the harriers' winning the 1500-meter after a 4:37.4 long one-man show. Next, Patterson raced 55 meters over the hurdles in a winning 8.5 seconds...