(1) A group of economists told the Wall Street Journal that is exactly what is happening : They blame our lackluster recovery this year on a pullback in spending and investment by US companies, which are afraid that the fallout from a fiscal cliff could compromise their ability to find funding or function normally.
(2) But leaders in both parties warned that a prolonged shutdown, and an associated decline in economic activity, could damage the lackluster economic recovery.
(3) Paraguay defeated Jamaica 1-0 Tuesday in a lackluster Group B match at the Copa América , giving the South Americans four points from their first two matches.
(4) Thank goodness for Kyrie Irving because without him this would have been one of the more lackluster All-Star Weekends in recent memory.
(5) The NSL rollback may have been the most sweeping recommendation made by the otherwise lackluster “review group”.
(6) An expert on the job markets, Yellen has been a staunch ally of Bernanke as he has tried to use low interest rates and QE to reanimate the US’s still-lackluster job market.
(7) Despite their lackluster results this year, GOP Super Pacs have far out-raised their Democratic counterparts, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.
(8) Even as he faces a major new crisis and weeks of bad news to overcome – a lackluster GOP convention; deeply negative views of his handling of the attack in Libya; dissension in the campaign ranks – Romney is maintaining a remarkably light campaign schedule, York writes : He had one public appearance on his schedule Monday, Sept. 17, a speech to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in Los Angeles.
(9) Many of the production numbers were lackluster (an ecstatic duet between Jesse Mueller and Carole King excepted), though the dancing was of a very high order.
(10) However, lackluster consumer spending and inflation data on Monday curbed investor bets on when the next rate rise will be.
(11) Saturday Night Live: a lackluster episode as show comes to terms with Trump Read more When someone fits the bill, the show will bring that person back often, and Emma Stone seems poised to becoming a regular.
(12) Adding to his problems, Pryor's approval ratings are lackluster.
(13) While the media hysteria over Obama's lackluster performance is overstated, this strategy was a big political mistake.
(14) The answer is not for Obama to be aggressive as a means of over-compensating for his lackluster performance in Denver (a la Al Gore in 2000) but rather keep things as simple as possible.
(15) The president's overall job performance is similarly lackluster , with 43% approving, and 52 % disapproving.
(16) The lackluster start to the week comes as America's fragile economic recovery faces another crucial test as major US firms report their first-quarter earnings.
(17) 12.29am BST Half time thoughts Well that was perhaps predictably lackluster from the USA, with only the slightly anxious contribution of Johannsson standing out, as he showed neat touches to make a couple of half chances only for nerves to apparently get the better of him.
(18) Normally by the 82nd game of the regular season, the post-season seedings are set and the starters are resting in preparation for the playoffs, with fan support lackluster if they even show up at all.
(19) The Federal Reserve should keep in mind the lackluster growth we’ve seen throughout 2015 and continue to let the economy recover,” said Elise Gould , senior economist at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
(20) A number of donors to Jeb Bush’s campaign were reportedly jittery about sticking by him even before Wednesday’s lackluster performance in the Republican debate , but in the fierce competition among GOP presidential candidates to win seven- or eight-figure checks from multibillionaire businessman Sheldon Adelson, Marco Rubio has already emerged as the frontrunner, the Guardian can reveal.
Uninspiring
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(1) But there can be few elections where the choice is as uninspiring as this.
(2) The Coalition is appealing to the same change-weary voters with the message that Turnbull is a better bet to deliver economic and political stability and Shorten is untested, uninspiring and a risk.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Venetian Condos in Oliver Unfortunately, Edmonton has a lot of rather odd and uninspired architecture, particularly that dating from the 1990s and early 2000s.
(4) Manchester City had not won since Sergio Agüero’s last goal, away against Swansea City on 24 September, but seven games later the Argentina striker found the net twice in the first half to catapult Pep Guardiola’s team past an uninspiring West Bromwich Albion and back to the top of the table, where Arsenal had momentarily displaced them earlier in the afternoon.
(5) Occasionally Beckerman would start in the Jones role, but the effect of him alongside Bradley seemed to be very static and uninspiring.
(6) The standard of opposition is, in part, to make up for a generally uninspiring fixture list in their qualifying group.
(7) Polls put Romney ahead by two percentage points on Thursday and, after delivering a competent but uninspired speech on Thursday evening, one point on Friday.
(8) City were sluggish and uninspired, and though Dzeko hit the bar with a powerful header just before Southampton levelled, he should have done better from Nasri's well-flighted free-kick.
(9) Yet it also includes hundreds of longstanding activists who did the same to register their discontent with what they felt to be a shrunken, inauthentic and uninspiring offer from the Labour mainstream.
(10) While a less crushing defeat is expected this time, analysts are not predicting significant gains for fragmented, uninspired opponents that have wilted under the EPRDF’s glare.
(11) Or, if you prefer, Barney Ronay's analysis of a "turgid, tactically constipated semi-final”, "a deeply uninspiring match", "a game of no shots, no incident and a crushing sense of caution", "120 minutes of something that resembled a groggy second cousin of high-grade tournament football".
(12) Miguel Herrera's side may have had a fairly uninspiring qualification campaign but they have already proved that they can kick it with the best of them and with the rest of them.
(13) They are uninspiring, do not challenge able students and certainly do not prepare students for an A-level course.
(14) Villa were flat and uninspiring, on the wrong end of a game of keep-ball, and, if Lambert's move for Grant Holt of Wigan Athletic smacks a little of desperation, it is because their record of eight home goals in the league is as bad as it gets in all four divisions.
(15) It looked as though the teams would play out an uninspiring 0-0 draw after 90 minutes that had end of season stamped all over them.
(16) Those are: Labor’s me-tooism on asylum-seekers that offend a moral conscience of idealistic campaigners, me-tooism on mass surveillance that infuriates an entire digital community of potential communicators, and employing the language of uninspiring bureaucracy around the progressive policy opportunity which is climate action.
(17) It detailed a string of failures: that staff training on how to prevent radicalism and extremism was not completed; there were issues around safeguarding, declining academic standards, uninspiring teaching, low expectations and low attendance.
(18) Their campaign has been arid and uninspiring so far and they must hope that the public does not grow resentful of their persistent claims that Scotland isn't big enough or good enough to stand alone.
(19) Sifting through a mountain of unwelcome tweets, many Twitter users would sympathise with a lament such as: "Most comments are predictably ludicrous, irrational and uninspiring and, therefore, do not warrant the time for a response."
(20) Photograph: PR company handout Creatively, it’s all a bit uninspiring, but there are passable moments.