Word: stagnant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Titled The Bi-Coastal Economy, the study asserts that economic growth during the Reagan Administration has been concentrated in California and 15 states lining the Atlantic Coast, while the rest of the country has been almost stagnant. From 1981 through 1985, these 16 coastal states enjoyed a lopsided 69% of total growth in personal income. Put another way: income from wages, salaries, rents and proprietary income in the 16 states rose a robust average 4% a year, vs. an anemic 1.4% in the other 34 states. The coastal states, where 42% of all Americans live, attracted...
...date, however, the mosquito's buzz has been worse than its bite. The tiger has not yet been blamed for any reports of illness in the U.S. Nor can it fly far on its own. It likes to breed in stagnant water often found in used tires; to travel, it hitches rides on trucks and ships...
...business of baseball risky enough. Think again. Last week Steinbrenner was at the starting gate of Florida's Pompano Park Harness Raceway, sitting in a sulky alongside such sporting celebs as Writer George Plimpton and Yankee Hall of Famer Whitey Ford. "When you become a businessman you become stagnant in some ways," explains Steinbrenner, who owns a trotter and a pacer. "You don't do as many of the exciting and dangerous things you used to do. It was skydiving or this." Of course, if Steinbrenner is still thrill seeking after winning the charity race, he can always bring back...
...organization called the New People's Army. Though the insurgency is concentrated on Mindanao and some other southern islands, it spread after the Aquino assassination to 60 of the country's 74 provinces. In addition, the killing of Aquino created a nationwide crisis of confidence that caused the already stagnant economy to spiral downward, even as most other Southeast Asian nations were prospering. After the assassination, says an American official, "all these concerns took a quantum leap...
True, an "apolitical," bureaucratic council would be ripe material for more snide columns, and a model of stagnant unresponsiveness to student concerns...