The mixed results come as John T. Chambers, Cisco's chief executive, forges ahead with an overhaul meant to combat sluggish decision-making while focusing the company on its core computer networking business.
We are not so much bothered by the outcome of that decision – we can move very easily to Berlin if we have to — but it is the government's sluggish decision-making that is most frustrating.
Even with $475 billion in foreign-exchange reserves, the Kremlin cannot continue to run Russia's ramshackle and uncompetitive economy without its most important export revenues.The shock of the Crimean annexation should speed up sluggish European decision-making on storage, interconnection, diversification, liberalisation, shale gas and efficiency.
Aletheia Partners attributed its decision to the sluggish economy.
Wang's surprise decision jolted the sluggish sale process as the Nets have stumbled to a 7-11 record.
The class action suit that led to Wednesday's decision has made sluggish progress through the court system, starting as a petition in October 2005 by several employees denied an opportunity to work at new charter schools here.
Instead, the 54-year-old American-trained economist said she would concentrate on reinvigorating the sluggish economy.Mrs Arroyo's decision was surprising, because the common assumption in Manila had been that she would run for a new, six-year term to complete a programme of reform that she has talked about but done little to put into action.
So despite a fundraising advantage, fueled in part by the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision, and a sluggish economy, Romney finds himself on the defensive.
The statement announcing the rate decision described the Japanese economy as "sluggish" — a term the bank last used in May 1998, when capital was fleeing Asia after an asset-price bubble collapsed the previous year.
The statement announcing the rate decision described the Japanese economy as sluggish — a term the bank last used in its assessment in May 1998, when capital was fleeing Asia after an asset-price bubble collapsed the previous year.
Any upwards support to prices by the supply cut is likely to be short-term, as the sluggish pace of the global economy offsets OPEC's decision to cut out the excess production that is sloshing around the market.
