Word: sluggishness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sluggish file transfers and Web browsing are constant occurrences on the Internet, from shutdowns on Harvard's own network to large network switch failures...
Making the Internet's early growth seem sluggish, NSFNET was capable of speeds known as T1--about 25 times those of the original three years later...
Fortunately, in what is a mainly predictable film, Milo Shea, as the engineer of the necessary happy ending, comes off well. Shea, on the whole, is convincing and gives a charming, fatherly portrayal of the title character. Garofalo, while retaining her characteristic snappy wit, had a certain sluggish weariness both physically (a little too prominent eye wrinkles) and in delivery. At times, she seems to be shouting her lines (even accounting for her character's abrasiveness) without much conviction. Like-wise, Sanders, while manifesting a certain irreverent charm, was more often smiling in cheerful, bovine manner than giving any punch...
...arrival. He shook up Kodak with rigorous pay-for-performance standards and refocused the company by selling off ill-advised acquisitions like drugmaker Sterling Winthrop, thereby cutting Kodak's $8 billion debt burden to a comfortable $1 billion. At the same time, he has greatly accelerated Kodak's once sluggish product-development cycles. "There is no self-doubt as to where the opportunities lie," says company president Daniel Carp, a 27-year Kodak veteran and Fisher's presumed heir. Nor, Carp adds, is there any lack of confidence in Kodak's ability to cash in on those opportunities...
...definitely a stronger team than it was last year, but that it's not an excuse for us to come that sluggish," said sophomore Dror Bar-Ziv, who tallied two goals in the contest. "We had a horrible warmup and we weren't focused...