Also, many Asian companies have only subsequently released annual numbers (which probably won't help sluggish Japan, whose presence here fell again, by 11%).

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To sensitive touch typists, the thin keyboards that are all the rage now known as membrane keyboards are sluggish and don't provide enough tactile feedback.

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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.

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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.

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The sluggish housing market, however, isn't the only factor affecting the timber industry.

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But the tablet itself was bulky, performance was sluggish, battery life was mediocre and there weren't even that many Android apps designed to be used with a pen.

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The Rangers got off to a sluggish start after losing the opening faceoff, and didn't mount any kind of early surge fueled by the excited home crowd.

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Coming off a 5-1 victory over the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday, the Maple Leafs didn't register a shot until just after the seven-minute mark of a sluggish opening period.

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We couldn't get confirmation on the exact CPU inside the Xcover 2, but take our word for it: performance is sluggish.

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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.

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