Robert Jones's design is perfunctory: a dull wall with a sluggish creeper for a don's garden; lots of books for a don's sitting-room; hideous stained concrete for a Prague exterior.
Movement in the financial and mining sectors has helped the FTSE 100 shrug off a sluggish start on Wall Street.
WELLS FARGO KICKS OFF BANK EARNINGS | Investors are gearing up for the latest round of bank earnings reports, after a sluggish year for Wall Street.
The labor market in the U.S. continued to improve in May, but the sluggish pace left Wall Street worried the recovery hit a snag.
Their thin walls, sluggish blood flow and a lack of pericyte and basement membrane support make them susceptible to thrombosis or collapse.
REUTERS Khosla Closes on Billion-Dollar Fund | Vinod Khosla's Khosla Ventures closed on one of the biggest V.C. funds raised this year, adding $1.05 billion to its books and defying talk of a sluggish fund-raising environment, The Wall Street Journal writes.
Specialists blame the usual suspects -- the sluggish economy; hard times on Wall Street and in the manufacturing and technology industries, and the reverberations of Sept. 11 -- for the bleak outlook in New York.
The economy may be lackluster and the Wall Street bull sluggish, but the best of the Big Apple's restaurants roared ahead in tasty performance.
He laid blame for the deficit on the sluggish economy and the slump on Wall Street and said there would be deficits without the administration's tax cuts.
Wall Street earnings remain sluggish, and 8.6percentt of the city's work force is without jobs, a rate far above the national average.
