The rate was so sluggish that New York members of Congress pushed for a one-year extension.
But if world demand remains sluggish, Iraq's fellow OPEC members may not be patient.
By monitoring the Doppler frequency shift in the spacecraft's radio signal during the flyby, NEAR researchers could infer that Mathilde slowed down the spacecraft by a third of a millimeter per second about the speed of a sluggish ant, said NEAR team member Donald Yeomans of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California.
The euro zone has no shortage of plans and pacts intended to end years of sluggish growth and impose discipline on its 17 members.
And despite a dissent from one member, the committee reaffirmed that the sluggish economy meant interest rates would stay low "for an extended period".
The database, which includes information for 1.7 million stolen passports and other travel documents, is available to all member states, though participation has been sluggish.
Unfortunately, wrangling over mitigation commitment targets from member countries has seen delays and sluggish progress in achieving this.
In the coming weeks the Republican nominee may be best served trying to convince woman voters that the sluggish economy has disproportionately affected society's most vulnerable members, and that Mr Obama is to blame.
Mrs. Clinton, sitting just a few feet away as a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, cited Iraq's sluggish political progress and a questionable recent Iraqi military campaign in Basra as evidence not of success, but rather failure.
He also struck some political analysts as being a bit sluggish, especially for someone who, as a senator, is a member of one of the most exclusive debating societies in the world.
