We'd gone through almost a decade in which job growth had been sluggish, incomes had declined, costs were going up -- all culminating in the financial system coming close to a breakdown.
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With the economy remaining sluggish, it had to intervene to get infrastructure projects started and the UK construction industry back to work.
Other units also struggled during the quarter, with weakness in power adapters leading accessory sales down 6%, while sluggish battery sales had the power platform category up just 1%.
Of course, our sluggish recovery has had little help from China, and resurgence in China (along with other emerging markets) could give the US economy a boost in 2013.
The Celtics, who had been historically sluggish on offense through those three games, hit five of their first seven shots.
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The lines seemed sluggish, as if the pen had been hesitant, in conflict with the impromptu composition.
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Sluggish Wales were shocked into life and had a penalty claim shrugged off after Gareth Bale had surged into the box only to be stopped, he felt, unfairly - but referee Aleksandar Stavrev disagreed.
It had been an exciting but sluggish contest, owing partly to the unavoidable torpor that accompanies televised football, but mostly because of the persistent confusion brought by the NFL's great 2012 boondoggle: replacement officials.
After all, we had gone through a decade of sluggish job growth and jobs being shifted overseas, and going from surpluses to deficits, all culminating in a financial crisis on Wall Street.
But Mr Monti also began to do something his predecessor had lamentably failed at: promote growth in sluggish Italy.
Pickering, who has had an indifferent indoor season, overcame a sluggish start in the same semi-final as Chambers to grab an excellent third spot.
Both teams made a sluggish start to the game but it was the visitors who had the first attempt on goal.
Google may have posted slightly sluggish earnings this time around, but China's dominant search engine had a growth spurt.
Moles had demanded more grit from New Zealand's top order and, despite a sluggish opening, McIntosh and Flynn duly obliged.
Imagine if the ITU, a classic example of a sluggish international bureaucracy with antiquated diplomatic rituals, or indeed any other inter-governmental organisation, had been put in charge of the nascent global network two decades ago.
We had gone through a decade in which jobs were being shipped overseas and job growth was sluggish and incomes were falling even as the costs of health care and college and gas and groceries were going up.
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French and Dutch voters blew a raspberry at their own governments for reasons that had little to do with Europe and everything to do with their domestic economies: the sluggish growth in France and the inflation in the Netherlands, which is blamed on the introduction of the euro.
"In case Nick Clegg had not noticed, the deficit is not falling as quickly as we would like because growth is more sluggish than we would like, " he told the BBC News Channel.
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