Word: sluggishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then in May, United Airlines dealt Boeing another blow by delaying delivery of 20 767 aircraft worth $900 million. United Chairman Richard J. Ferris cited the sluggish economy and fare wars as undermining United's ability to buy, plus congressional threats to kill or modify so-called safe harbor leasing provisions, which allow companies that do not need tax credits to sell them to companies that do. United would have thereby gained many millions of dollars, enabling it to buy Boeing's airplanes...
...replaced. But this apology for China's present problems, he notes quite correctly, ignores the "reality that 65 percent of China's one billion people...have been born since liberation and don't remember the bad old days...all they can remember is tumultuous political campaigns and a sluggish economy." Such an explanation is "condescending and insulting," he notes. "It suggests that China could not do as well economically as its neighbors Taiwan and South Korea, or achieve both the political democracy and economic growth of Japan...
Brendan Meagher scored three goals in the period, and Will Sollee netted another. The Crimson defense held a surprisingly complacent and sluggish Dartmouth offense to only two goals in the quarter, the second coming with just one second left in the period, as Harvard took an early 5-2 lead and held on for a 7-5 halftime edge...
Suffering from post-Ivy League tournament doldrums, the Harvard softball team played sluggish ball against a weaker Curry College Squad for six innings but finally blew the game open. 13-5, with a seven run explosion in the seventh inning...
...Harvard, however, that got off to a sluggish start, scoring only one in the first quarter, while the Minutemen notched three goals. In the second quarter the Crimson defense clamped down and goalie Tim Pendergast turned away blast after blast to limit the UMass attack to only one goal. Pendergast had an outstanding game, stopping 27 Minutemen shots...