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    sagging
    [ adj ]
    hanging down (as from exhaustion or weakness)
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    Sag \Sag\ (s[a^]g), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Sagged}; p. pr. & vb.
    n. {Sagging}.] [Akin to Sw. sacka to settle, sink down, LG.
    sacken, D. zakken. Cf. {Sink}, v. i.]
    1. To sink, in the middle, by its weight or under applied
    pressure, below a horizontal line or plane; as, a line or
    cable supported by its ends sags, though tightly drawn;
    the floor of a room sags; hence, to lean, give way, or
    settle from a vertical position; as, a building may sag
    one way or another; a door sags on its hinges.

    2. Fig.: To lose firmness or elasticity; to sink; to droop;
    to flag; to bend; to yield, as the mind or spirits, under
    the pressure of care, trouble, doubt, or the like; to be
    unsettled or unbalanced. [R.]

    The mind I sway by, and the heart I bear,
    Shall never sag with doubt nor shake with fear.
    --Shak.

    3. To loiter in walking; to idle along; to drag or droop
    heavily.

    {To sag to leeward} (Naut.), to make much leeway by reason of
    the wind, sea, or current; to drift to leeward; -- said of
    a vessel. --Totten.


    Sagging \Sag"ging\, n.
    A bending or sinking between the ends of a thing, in
    consequence of its own, or an imposed, weight; an arching
    downward in the middle, as of a ship after straining. Cf.
    {Hogging}.

    1. New car and truck sales are in a tailspin, partly because of sagging consumer confidence, worry about conflict in the Middle East and a slowing economy.
    2. A complete overhaul failed to revive the sagging late-night fortunes of "Wheel of Fortune" host Pat Sajak, whose CBS talk show goes around for the final time next week.
    3. The Mexican government is working with a group of banks and brokerages to prepare an investment package that would inject liquidity into the sagging local stock market, brokerage officials said.
    4. They predicted the dollar will move higher in the next few days, now that central bank intervention appears to have tapered off, except for the Bank of England which is trying to shore up the sagging pound.
    5. The ministers' aim is to curtail their production in an effort to reduce the glut on the market and lift sagging prices.
    6. Grant and LeMasters were the architects of a bold bid this season to revive CBS's sagging ratings; the network replaced eight of its 22 hours of weekly prime-time programming, the most ever for CBS.
    7. Seven weeks ago, Hasbro chairman and chief executive Alan G. Hassenfeld announced a sweeping reorganization to prepare for new spending cuts and to help lift sagging profits.
    8. Doing so would choke the sagging German economy, Mr. Chandler said.
    9. Hundreds of companies sought to boost investor confidence and sagging stock prices by announcing they would repurchase shares in the marketplace.
    10. The oil market has continued to gain ground despite conflicting reports on whether OPEC would act soon to stabilize sagging prices.
    11. The higher dividend, payable Aug. 25 to stock of record Aug. 5, is the first change since the aluminum producer lowered its quarterly payout from 45 cents a share in November 1982, when earnings were sagging.
    12. Its trade-weighted index has been above the low point reached after the forced withdrawal from the ERM, but it has been sagging for most of this year.
    13. Krenz, who is trying to bolster the Communist Party's sagging authority with promises of reform and foreign travel, lifted the ban.
    14. It was also apparently designed to bolster the company's sagging stock price.
    15. "We had to cut holes in the roof for ventilation, and part of the roof is sagging badly," he said.
    16. But an Agriculture Department report says "tight supplies are likely to keep U.S. prices firm" in the coming year, at least above sagging world prices.
    17. Afghan security forces, well-equipped but reportedly sagging in morale, have had little success in facing the U.S.-armed guerrillas alone.
    18. 'We have a duty to defend our interests against monopolistic and corrupt forces,' said Mr Dirceu Almeida, the union's lawyer. Mr Hanan is counting on victory to lift sagging tin prices.
    19. Officials of Pacific Construction accepted responsibility and have had crews scrambling around to fill and patch the newest pavement cracks or gaps between sidewalks or sagging walls and buildings as soon as they are reported.
    20. Fleet-Norstar Financial Group said Monday it expects its non-performing loans to increase by at least $200 million in the first quarter, making it the latest bank to be hit by New England's sagging economy.
    21. Texaco U.S.A. announced Tuesday it would form two major exploration and producing regional organizations and streamline its operations in an effort to boost sagging production profits.
    22. The moratorium was imposed by the court in January as a way to cope with budget cuts prompted by the state's sagging economy.
    23. The company said increased profit, mainly at its four owned and operated TV stations, more than offset the loss at the network, which has been hurt by a weak national advertising market and sagging prime-time ratings.
    24. The announcement Friday on national television appeared to be an effort by the Communists, who still control the goverment, to bolster their sagging image before a key party congress starting Jan. 30.
    25. Merrill officials insisted yesterday that none of this week's events are causing problems for the preference issue, which is a critical piece of GM's plan to bolster its sagging balance sheet.
    26. Retail sales in February took their steepest fall in four months, the government reported, but analysts said the decline was due almost entirely to sagging automobiles sales.
    27. Called Burlington Sheer Indulgence, the hosiery line is an attempt to develop a new niche and bring some excitement to the sagging pantyhose market.
    28. The Sweden-based Ikea is a rare Southern California retailing success story at a time when sagging real estate prices and layoffs in aerospace and construction have put the brakes on spending.
    29. This is all the more so, given the sagging share price during the underwriting period.
    30. The sagging economy will make it "a lot tougher" than the chain's 1988 move into Virginia, says Douglas Tigert, a Babson College marketing professor who studies shoppers' attitudes about chains.
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