Unfortunately, the lumbering sturgeon proved all too easy to catch, and their U.S. population quickly hit the skids.
Instead you get a muddled policy mess that is cumbersome, lumbering, and which satisfies no one.
Here comes Bob as if on cue, lumbering slowly as a zombie up the hill toward her.
In any event, the apparent immovability of seasoned officials still running the lumbering bureaucracy can prove embarrassing.
And they may enable lumbering parents to produce nimbler, more entrepreneurial offspring better able to challenge upstarts.
There are times when one wishes for a bit more power, but it isn't a lumbering beast, either.
Automakers took decades to evolve from hungry innovators to lumbering behemoths, but in wireless things just move faster.
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The scandals nonetheless made clear that the Catholic Church's lumbering, centuries-old Vatican administrative bureaucracy is its Achilles' heel.
Harley sells 243, 000 bikes a year, about 26% of the U.S. market, and almost all are big, lumbering machines.
At first, devices that needed to amplify a signal such as radios and the first, lumbering computers used the vacuum-tube amplifier.
Lumbering and heavy, despite their engine power, they are no fun to handle.
If bodybuilders were the ascetics of the festival, the strongmen were its mead-swigging friars, lumbering by with plates piled high.
That meant bidding farewell to a few lumbering creatures: the Pink Panther, Woody Woodpecker and the Cat in the Hat.
Carriers make large and lumbering targets, and missiles can be launched from land and air as well as the sea.
Meanwhile, Chinese leaders have noted lumbering attempts by India, the region's other rising power, to rescue its citizens trapped in Libya.
Bayer will still look like a lumbering dinosaur when it makes its planned debut on the New York Stock Exchange on Jan. 24, 2002.
Plus, the island is home to Hong Kong's endangered population of water buffalo, who can often be seen lumbering along the beach.
The media industry, with its lumbering state giants and fragmented private sector, has created another opening: for online-video sites, such as Youku.
On the dirt road into Roy Hill, bush turkeys stalk away in haughty alarm, and wedge-tailed eagles make long, slow, lumbering takeoffs.
When Gerstner left IBM, it was still a big lumbering hierarchical bureaucracy.
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For one thing, he doesn't have an ounce of fat on him, unlike the lumbering giants who rule the Japanese wrestling ring.
After the historic events of the past fortnight, who would bet that AIG will be the last lumbering giant to need resuscitation?
In "Stonewall, " Hamman takes his sharp-edged croon for a lumbering, jazzy stroll.
In most industries the lumbering, unresponsive incumbent gets wiped out by the nimble newcomer, or at least is spurred to improve its ways.
Having shaken off its gerontocrats by natural attrition in the 1990s, China is now in danger of lumbering itself with a whole new set.
Take a transatlantic combination of a lumbering, accident-prone universal bank with a prickly, free-wheeling investment bank, and only the foolhardy would bet on success.
The government calculates that getting good people in at the top may be the quickest way to turn around some of its lumbering giants.
There is also the matter of culture and rewards making the new talent feel valued and comfortable inside a lumbering European giant will be tricky.
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Feeling suddenly weak in the knees, I sank back on the hard train seat and glanced again at the gloomy landscape lumbering past the window.
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