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When the club returned from the trip — in which they also dealt with an off-the-field crisis when Ohtani’s interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara, was discovered to have stolen money from the player to pay off gambling debts — it started the domestic portion of its schedule sluggishly, going just 11-10 in the next 21 games.

Yet while property prices continued to fall and retail sales grew sluggishly, China’s economy powered ahead instead in the first three months of this year, expanding at an annual rate of about 6.6 percent because of booming exports and strong factory investments.

The play is verbose, the plot is sluggishly novelistic and the operatic scale is indulgent.

As climate change warms the planet, heat waves are increasingly moving sluggishly and lasting longer, exacerbating the effects of extreme temperatures, according to a study.

She added that the Bureau of Prisons has “proceeded sluggishly with intentional disregard of the inmates’ constitutional rights despite being fully apprised of the situation for years.