But I.B.M. reported a sluggish revenue increase of 2 percent, to $23.7 billion, below Wall Street's forecast of just under $24.2 billion.
Atlantic City casinos posted a sluggish 2.4percentt increase in gross operating profits last year, according to year-end statistics released by the New Jersey Casino Control Commission.
Start by running a mile at a leisurely pace, Loenser recommends, and if the dog keeps up without bugging you to stop or acting sluggish, increase your runs in half-mile increments over the next few weeks.
Preliminary evidence of a labor shortage--a sluggish response to increasing wages--exists in the remaining three fields, yet a closer look reveals that one of them--aerospace engineering--probably doesn't have a real, long-term shortage.
Europe was predictably sluggish, increasing exports by 1.2% and imports by 1.9%.
While the entire country grew more slowly in the past decade, the New York metropolitan area, including the suburbs, was particularly sluggish, increasing by 3.1 percent.
But a stable government is urgently needed in Bulgaria as the country is facing a host of problems, including a still-unresolved failure of a major bank, a sluggish economy and increasing Russian pressure over a gas pipeline.The case of the Corporate Commercial Bank (CCB) appears most pressing.
In 2002, however, Hamasaki's domestic sales began declining due to a sluggish Japanese market and increasing piracy in Japan.
Charges of employment discrimination tend to increase in a sluggish economy with a high jobless rate.
Either Barack Obama or his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, will face a fiscal nightmare: a sluggish economy, a massive tax increase, meat-ax spending reductions, the expiration of extended jobless benefits, and a debt ceiling that imperils the faith and credit of the United States.
