Word: sluggishness
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...save Japan: "The few billion that the U.S. spends on propping up the yen are spit on a hot stove," says Van Voorst. "They're important mostly as a psychological reassurance to Tokyo. It's up to the Japanese to get themselves back in shape." Japan has been sluggish in responding to G7 pleas for urgent action, but Treasury official Larry Summers flies to Tokyo later today to press the case. Because as Monday's 200-point drop in the Dow on news of Japan's recession confirmed, Washington and Tokyo are in this together...
Sleep, vegetative unconsciousness, surrender of the will--Burne-Jones' art was largely about passivity, and his knights look a tad sluggish even when they are skewering dragons. He idolized Michelangelo--the year 1871 found Burne-Jones flat on his back on a traveling rug in the Sistine Chapel, minutely scrutinizing the ceiling with opera glasses--and comatose versions of the Slaves and Captives abound in his work. The dream-suffused character of the art of Burne-Jones won him a following on the other side of the Channel by connecting him to painters in the stream of French and Belgian...
...critical to APS' budding success is the fact that you can get the film developed nearly anywhere in the U.S. that 35-mm film is processed, a far cry from the spotty APS services available just a year ago. That has camera and film companies, humbled after APS' sluggish start, talking big again. "I think APS will eventually replace 35-mm film for consumers," says Ted McGrath, president of the photography group at Fuji Photo Film U.S.A...
...line and form is always tempered by a certain rhythmic sweetness, as in one of the masterpieces of Calder's middle years, The Spider, 1940. Later, as he got famous and "monumental" commissions were pressed on him, he would defeat this quality of his own work by building huge sluggish mobiles--one of which, 76 ft. wide, hangs permanently over the atrium of the National Gallery--that would need a hurricane to budge them and are parodies of his original, lyrical insight. He was always best on the small-to-medium scale. And compared with his best mobiles, his "stabiles...
...shelves. In running shoes, Nike had problems with fit and what insiders call product "freshness." And missing in the retail mix was a good selection of shoes below $80, in what the industry calls the "kill zone"--where the bulk of unit volume is done. The sluggish sales accelerated an industry consolidation among retailers. "I can't emphasize enough the profound revolution the retail side has gone through in 1996 and '97," says Clarke. "No way you can go through this without some adjustment...