Its economy may be sluggish, but its workers are among the world's most productive.
Its short-term outlook may be sluggish, but even that is remarkable given Lilly's near-death experience in 2000.
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Recovery in Europe is also likely to be sluggish, though most economists now reckon it has already started.
As consumers try to pay down those debts, the result will be sluggish demand and thus slower growth.
One senior figure predicts that Mr Osborne will struggle to meet his borrowing targets, amid what may well be sluggish global growth.
Until the job creation by new employer businesses bounces back, employment growth is likely to be sluggish, despite the recent pickup over the last three months.
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That forecast predicted a 2.9% growth for real gross domestic product in 2007, noting that growth might be sluggish due to uncertainties surrounding the housing sector.
Retail sales and taxes on them will be sluggish as consumers persist for the next decade in their saving spree, replacing the borrowing and spending binge of the last decade.
Mr. Jakobsen said the lower interest rates also could indicate that the economy will continue to be sluggish and that investors shouldn't expect the positive market sentiment to last long-term.
"Our current thinking is that the downturn, currently two years in the making, will last until 2009, with any sector recovery likely to be sluggish for some time after that, " said Joseph Snider, senior credit officer at Moody's.
Moody's now expects that economic growth will be "sluggish" into the second half of the decade.
Of course, there are other concerns: Patent expirations, and sales that look like they may be more sluggish than Deaney expected.
We tested the application on both a Verizon Curve 8530 and a Tour 9630 and found the entire solution to be incredibly sluggish.
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It runs a quad-core Cortex A7 CPU with 1GB of RAM, but curiously we found this larger device to be more sluggish than its dual-core little brother.
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We expect the growth in its hardware business to be relatively sluggish initially as it phases out the low margin products while pushing its new high margin products to customers.
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, a rich country think-tank, isn't expecting a Japanese recovery to start until next year and even then it is expected to be very sluggish.
Following that example was never going to be easy, but did the result have to be quite so sluggish?
In form, the movie is a detective story, but we watch with increasing apprehensiveness as it dawns on us that Pharaon might be a kind of sluggish Oedipus, a sleuth who uncovers the traces of a crime that he has committed himself.
Even if productivity growth does tail off, it may still be strong enough to match sluggish demand.
The efforts are in tacit recognition of a medical inevitability: Even the most sluggish cancer can't be stopped if you don't see it coming early enough.
Those opposed to the latest round of tax-cut proposals complain that they are unfairly skewed in favour of the rich and are in any case unlikely to be effective in kick-starting a sluggish economy.
"I think that when you do cut taxes by substantial amounts, as are bring talked about, some of it will wind up in spending and will help the economy, but the pace or the timing of that help will be rather slow and the pace rather sluggish, " he said.
Consumer spending growth has been reduced to a trickle as a sluggish economy has caused people to be cautious shoppers.
Economic growth in Australia has been sluggish recently, but that might be changing, says Adam Patti, CEO of IndexIQ, which manages the IQ Australia Small Cap exchange-traded fund.
These answers will be contingent upon how well America competes in a sluggish global economy awash in government debt.
Most Americans and Europeans would not consider low government-bond yields to be adequate compensation for the nearly two decades of sluggish economic growth that Japan has suffered.
But it does mean that we should be looking a little askance at those claiming that sluggish hardware sales are as a result of a Windows 8 failure.
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