Word: sluggishness
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...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...
Tuesday Morning anticipates strong holiday sales, despite a sluggish start. "We expect to end the year 12% up," says Ross. The company typically rakes in 45% of its revenues and all its profits in the fourth quarter. But Ross is looking far beyond the current season. He aims to nearly double the number of Tuesday Morning stores to 250 by 1995 and to be open -- and closed -- for business in every state...
...Bush Administration also chose its words carefully. White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said the U.S. was in a "slowdown," while President Bush called the economy "sluggish." Meanwhile, the Commerce Department reported that the GNP grew a weak 1.7% in the July-September period, down slightly from the previous estimate. Most of the growth came before Iraq invaded Kuwait...
Junior Stacie Duncan and Co-Captain Jill Hutchison didn't seem sluggish after each winning three events at Pitt on Saturday. Duncan led the sqaud with first-place finishes in the 1000-M freestyle, 200-M butterfly, and the 400-M individual medley. Hutchison touched first in the 100 and 200-M freestyle, and joined Allison Estes, Stephanie Wriede, and Lynn Kelly to turn in a blistering 200-M medley relay time...
...those who develop Type II diabetes are obese. The tendency of obesity to increase with age largely explains why this disease attacks predominantly people over the age of 40. In obese people, cells quickly become sated and sluggish. They reduce their sensitivity to insulin and, thus, their appetite for glucose. To compensate, the pancreas heroically pumps out more and more insulin. Usually it is able to keep up with the work load. As Dr. Jeffrey Flier, an endocrinologist at Beth Israel Hospital, emphasizes, "Most obese people do not have diabetes." In susceptible individuals, however, obesity can overload the system...