While the US struggles with huge deficits and sluggish growth and is bogged down in endless wars in the Islamic world, China has been steadily building its influence around the world; its power deriving from its vast trade and currency surpluses and an economy expanding once more at 10 per cent a year.
Since the Getty signed a pact with Italy in 2007, however, the case against Ms. True has seemed to become bogged down in the sluggish Italian legal system, and lawyers for Ms. True could seek to have the case dismissed on the grounds that the statute of limitations has expired.
Many rape cases are bogged down in India's overburdened and sluggish court system for years.
The American Embassy in Nairobi, which has criticized Kenya in the past as being sluggish in cracking down on terrorists, praised the investigation.
Daley and Waterfield admitted that nerves and a little "rustiness" accounted for their sluggish performance in the morning's preliminary round, where at one point they were down in 10th position.
In the short run, large tax increases and spending cuts would slow down a sluggish economy, while in the long run, this is exactly what we need to deal with the huge debt hanging over our heads.
The company said in early May that it expected global sales to decline 14percentt in the year to March 2010, weighed down by sluggish sales in North America, its biggest market.
Moreover, by being consistent, you allow yourself the room to have sluggish days without throwing in the towel; slow down but don't give up.
Economic growth slowed in the last quarter to its most sluggish pace in five years, 3.2percentt, weighed down by low oil prices.
Despite a record streak of job creation, wage growth has been sluggish, raising the possibility that even a modest change in economic conditions could slow down progress even further.
