China seems to be coming out of its economic slump, and visions of that country once again providing fast growth in a plodding world have fueled a bit of a rush on Chinese equity funds.
But it undermined the popularity both of the Concertacion government of President Eduardo Frei, a plodding and uninspired Christian Democrat, and of Mr Lagos, who ran a worthy but old-fashioned campaign, promising voters a fairer society, built gradually through positive discrimination for the disadvantaged, better state education and improved health services.
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Some miracle drugs emerge from eureka moments, but more often a new compound results from years of meticulous, plodding work championed by a true believer.
Collison is a plodding, uninspired piece of "faction" covering those same events of 32 years ago.
Enter the Avis Budget Group, whose corporate name sounds nearly like a parody of a plodding, if well-capitalized big competitor.
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Mr Kaplan's biography recounts, in a plodding and not wholly reliable fashion, the salient events of Mr Vidal's colourful life.
But, corporations appear to have adjusted to a plodding economy by cutting costs enough to be on their way to reporting record profits, driving stock prices to within reach of their highs hit before the Great Recession.
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And could you imagine Gandalf plodding his way through a spell book instead of issuing a majestic incantation?
The conclusion may well be that you are a dull plodding sort.
They also enact the political philosophy Mr Blunkett sketched in a recent, plodding book.
But perhaps few, with such a taste for plodding, got further.
As his successor he chose Mariano Rajoy, a decent but plodding politician who seemed unlikely to overshadow him, rather than Mr Rato, his brilliant finance minister.
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As we set off south down the coast on our last morning, we followed a bear's plodding tracks through the apron of black sand for 3 miles.
And the station also serves as a place where drama can happen juxtaposed with commuters plodding along with their business.
It featured a few former sports stars but also long stretches of plodding testimony and bench conferences.
They are accustomed to the firm's plodding pace and wide-angle view, which combined to produce a compound annual return of 27% over the past 30 years (double the rise in broad stock market averages).
With nothing but viscous sauces and foie gras plodding through my head, I feared that I had painted myself into a culinary corner.
The berry is most popularly consumed as part of a smoothie, found at stands lining the beachfront or from vendors plodding through the sand.
Suddenly, it was as if Mr Bush was giving a different speech, powerful where he had been dutiful, passionate where he had been plodding.
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