Thus, upon heating, liquids flow more easily, whereas gases flow more sluggishly.
Now fast-growing Internet companies will be swapping their stock for companies growing far more sluggishly, intermingling the two worlds.
And America's population is growing smartly, so GDP per head has grown a good deal more sluggishly than GDP as a whole.
June has already lost her parents, and soon she will lose her younger siblings: they fall from a train, one dying instantly, the other more sluggishly.
They are destined, it is said, to grow more sluggishly than America for ever, and so dollar assets are a much better investment than dodgy euros.
Digital TV recorders, which allow viewers to pause or stop their favorite shows and replay them later, have also sold more sluggishly than expected.
Over the next few months, the city calculated that tax revenue had increased more sluggishly than had been anticipated, while costs for social programs, including ones for the homeless, had risen more rapidly.
Perhaps of more immediate concern, the Wii U is selling much more sluggishly than the No. 1 home console, Microsoft's Xbox 360, which has been around since 2005.
The overall package is heavily dependent on the unforeseeable results of a campaign against tax evasion (one activity Italians do plan carefully), and in any case Italy is recovering from the crisis more sluggishly than any other G8 nation.
