Word: sluggish
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...were a little sluggish," Zimmerman said. "But the match was pretty predictable. They made errors on the big points, and that was the difference in the match...
...knows how long it will take to undo the damage done by the war. Most of the oil in the gulf will probably be left for nature to dispose of, a process that could take decades given the sluggish movement of the water. The job of disarming or exploding the land mines is also likely to go on for years; 50 years after World War II, people are still stumbling on mines in Egypt's western desert...
Harvard got off to a sluggish start in the second half as well, with the Tigers concentrating on taking away the Harvard's perimeter game...
...heightened global anxiety about the security of Persian Gulf crude supplies has imposed an extra cost of more than $20 billion in higher oil prices since Iraq invaded Kuwait last August. The burden, acting like a new tax, helped push the U.S. into recession and put a drag on sluggish economies around the world. With every new rumor out of the Persian Gulf, the war premium swung menacingly. The gyrations gave rise to a frightening question: How high would oil prices skyrocket if fighting actually broke out -- $50 or even...
...hectares (160,000 acres) of virgin rain forest in Costa Rica with money earned collecting old newspapers and recycling aluminum cans. Japanese students have mounted a campaign to eliminate disposable wooden chopsticks and replace them with reusable plastic models. Children in one Soviet town were able to persuade the sluggish local government to hasten construction of a roundabout that would allow traffic to bypass the center of town and thus reduce pollution. In Brazil the number of nongovernment environmental groups has swelled from 500 three years ago to nearly 4,000; they include many children...