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Some of these symptoms include a high fever, lethargy, hearing loss, kidney failure, confusion, brain damage, learning disabilities, coma and possibly death.
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Symptoms of prolonged deficiency include ventroflexion of the neck (bending the head toward the floor); mental dullness (confusion, lethargy, non-responsiveness, failing to interact, low energy); vision changes; wobbly walking, circling, or falling; seizures; and weakness and lethargy.
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This matches a symptom of Alzheimer’s in men, who are likely to display signs of apathy, said Jaime Ross, a neuroscientist and the research paper’s senior author.
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The council’s decision to shelve so many reforms will only fuel public apathy and distrust, said Ross Weistroffer, an organizer with Fair Rep LA Coalition, a group of nonprofits that pushes for good government and fair representation.
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But don’t mistake the pace for inertia.
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LaGore further contextualizes current hesitation toward intermodal adoption within organizational memory and operational inertia.
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As the camera glides in and around a roller-skating rink, where much of the action takes place, Decker and Shlesinger achieve and sustain a terrific balance of comic velocity and erotic languor.
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Breaking Bad took place in the languor of suburbia and Better Call Saul in the corrupt organs of the legal system, but Vince Gilligan’s latest show Pluribus makes a home out of the stranger substrate of speculative sci-fi.
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Although a genius at depicting indolence, Hockney himself worked with a rigorous commitment.
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The rapid growth of AI data centers is simply forcing us to reckon with many years of indolence.
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Europe’s lassitude is heightened by internal divisions.
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As something of a companion piece to More, Jacques Deray’s summer thriller La Piscine is a far more dramatic and insidious tale of tropical desire, lassitude, and violence.
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In fact, the battle could have cleared House of the Dragon of its reputation for sluggishness.
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Yet sluggishness at the very top is masking dynamism throughout the rest of the list, as a new generation of firms—whether Vietnamese conglomerates, Singaporean banks, or once-loss-making digital platforms—is capturing a greater share of regional revenue and profits.
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Impatience is a form of laziness, and the cure for impatience is to slow way down.
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Defaulting To Generic Strategies And Predictable Patterns My complaint is about context decay and structural laziness.
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