Word: sluggishness
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...women prevailed in a 15-12 win. The men’s loss could hardly have been closer, as the squad posted 5-4 defeats in the saber and foil with epee pulling out a 6-3 win. The problems stemmed from the first round of bouts, when sluggish play put the team in a hole from which it could not recover. “All my three squads were quite lethargic and trying to come back from behind was tough to do,” Crimson coach Peter Brand said. “Everyone is very pumped when they...
...home court by Columbia the night before. The same Lions team that won handily on the Crimson’s home court struggled all night at Dartmouth the next day, before pulling out a 63-55. Finally, struggling Brown picked up its second win of the season by beating sluggish perrenial power Princeton in Providence. On to this weekend’s games. BROWN (11-7, 2-0)at CORNELL (11-9, 4-2) Fresh off their second league win, the Bears visit the Big Red on the opening night of their road trip. Unfortunately for Brown, Cornell...
...tomorrow.“They beat us last year in the Beanpot,” Sifers said of BC. “So right now it’s payback. It’s a huge game for us.”HARVARD 5, RPI 1After a sluggish start, the Crimson rallied behind Vaillancourt to pull away down the stretch. Harvard fell behind 1-0 midway through the second period but tied the score later in the frame and used a natural hat trick from Vaillancourt to bury the Engineers in the third period.It was Vaillancourt’s third...
...combined with a technical foul assessed to Harvard coach Frank Sullivan in protest of a non-foul call on freshman point guard Drew Housman’s last-second shot, transformed the positive feelings into those of apprehension. “The first half, we came out a little sluggish,” said Yale point guard Eric Flato. “We really tried to buckle down and get a little tougher [in the] second half—better execution, better effort. It took us a while to wake up.” Wake up Yale did, as Flato...
...YANKEES What economists are struggling to predict is how pervasive the impact of this housing slowdown will be on the rest of the U.S. economy, and abroad. Perhaps most surprising, American consumers are continuing to spend, regardless: automobile purchases are sluggish, but retail sales rose by a higher-than-forecast 0.9% in December. "I'm not prepared to bet against the American consumer. That's a highly dangerous proposition," says Jesper Koll, chief Japan economist for Merrill Lynch...