Word: sluggishly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Fears of renewed recession cause a sluggish start for Christmas buying
...they may rise by as much as 2% a month this winter because of a poor harvest and overseas demand. At the same time, the unemployment level, now 7.6%, will creep up as rising interest rates slow down homebuilding and other industries. As it is, the economy is very sluggish. New home sales in September dropped 14% from the previous month, and retail trade, depressed by continued weakness in the auto and building-material markets, slipped back in October after rising for four consecutive months...
...game opened with an immediate, if somewhat sluggish Harvard press deep into the Yale zone. Before the Elis gained control of the ball, Crimson co-captain Sue St. Louis, playing her last game in a Harvard uniform, placed a perfect crossing pass in front of freshman striker Joan Elliott, who directed the ball into the net and sent Yale goalie Angie Harris sprawling...
...steel industry is tightly tied to the ups and downs of the economy, and generally sluggish growth in most industrial countries has reduced demand. The International Iron and Steel Institute reports that in the first seven months of this year production in 29 industrialized and developing nations was down 5.5%, and is expected to fall even faster for the rest of the year in the industrialized countries...
...debit side, Thomas Derrah's hulking Puck fails to spark the rest of the production in quite the same inhuman way as Mark Linn-Baker's in the spring. Derrah, verbally agile but physically sluggish, acts the comic sidekick; where Linn-Baker's animality was ferral, Derrah's is docile, dog-like--Oberon's best friend...