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Graham lost the 1988 primary by 51 votes, on a rainy Thursday after running a sluggish campaign effort. Although Thompson bested her handily as a write-in candidate for the general election, much of his support came from city voters disillusioned with Graham's record...
...going to have to pick up the slack," blue-liner Brian Popiel said. "We'll probably be a little sluggish after this weekend, but the fact that the Garden's rink is so small should help us. We won't have to run around as much...
...swollen budget. After an initially sluggish response by the Reagan Administration, Washington has pumped current AIDS funding to a robust $1.6 billion. That is slightly more than the budget for cancer ($1.5 billion), which killed more than twelve times as many people last year (500,000, compared with 40,000 who died from AIDS). And it is far greater than the $610 million budget for heart disease, the nation's top killer. "It's wrong to spend more money on a disease that will never kill more than 35,000 to 40,000 people a year than on a disease...
...Sluggish home prices are also good news in the drive to dampen inflation. Returning to the days of negligible inflation, if we eventually can do so, should also mean returning to the days of low interest rates (from 1880 to 1965, home mortgage rates above 6% were all but unheard of), and that would be good news for the economy -- and for future home buyers...
...first two games, the Crimson players looked sluggish. They did not serve agressively and committed numerous passing errors. They just couldn't set up their quick offense or get into any type of game rhythm...