Word: sluggishness
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Strong sales of suburban homes are almost the only bright spot in an otherwise sluggish building industry. While the number of single-family homes started last year went up 10% from 1985, construction of new apartment dwellings was down 6%. Meanwhile, the value of commercial and industrial construction also declined...
More conventional was Don Giovanni. Karajan's 1986 recording with largely the same cast seemed sluggish and unfocused, but in the more stimulating environment of live performance, the interpretation gleamed. His is not the rhythmically incisive, sharply chiseled Mozart currently in favor in the wake of the original-instruments revolution, but a mellower, more reflective interpretation that prizes sonority and melodic beauty. Bass Samuel Ramey was a swaggering antihero, cocky till the end, and Soprano Julia Varady brought a sweet pathos to the obsessive Donna Elvira. Director Michael Hampe's staging was conventional until the climax. When the Commendatore dragged...
Such writers are frightened--and rightfully so--by our sluggish economy, our losses in international trade, and our rapid transformation from the world's largest creditor to the world's largest debtor in the space of a few years. They have watched the United States' share of the world economy drop from nearly half to close to a quarter. They observe the growing power of the Japanese and Germans, and they say the decline is unstoppable. They chart the failures of our military power in Vietnam and now the Gulf, and they cry "Uncle...
Organizations that traditionally offer aid and support to minorities, such as civil rights groups and the church, have been sluggish in acknowledging the epidemic. For them AIDS presents a disturbing dilemma: the disease threatens to increase racial discrimination and further distance blacks and Hispanics from full participation in mainstream society. "We don't want to get to the point," says Dr. Reed Tuckson, public health commissioner of Washington, "where people say to any black, 'You can't come into my restaurant, and you damned sure can't come into my swimming pool...
West Germany and the rest of Europe may need lower taxes and a more expansive money supply to help stimulate sluggish investment. High interest rates have discouraged many European companies from borrowing to build additional capacity or buy new equipment. Even cash-rich firms often hold back because they think they can earn a better return by lending out funds than by making capital investments. Complained Giersch: "We don't have enough investment because our firms would rather buy U.S. bonds...