Word: stagnant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Charlie, Pfluger portrays a confused young man torn between his affections for Josephine and his repulsions from her stagnant family. Handsome, yet awkward, Pfluger seems unsure whether or not to take his character seriously. Although he portrays the most interesting character in the movie. Pfluger never seems truly alive or completely aware of his surroundings...
...THOUGH LEADERS fails in its primary task of providing insight into many of the world's leading actors, it does give an engrossing glimpse into a fertile, though dangerous, mind. For observers of a President way out of touch with the complexities of his office and wallowing in stagnant ideology, Nixon's intellectual abilities and grasp of world politics sounds frighteningly refreshing--or at least provocative...
Harvard ran a small surplus in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1982, overcoming a poor investment climate, a stagnant economy, and a drop in federal support for student aid and research, the University's annual financial report showed...
...force in Eastern Europe, where it might face unrest and rebellion, similar to that in Poland, during the rest of the 1980s. "The Soviet imperial system is suffering from a sickness, a deep systemic crisis," says Bialer. "For the Kremlin, Poland is not a cold, but pneumonia." With their stagnant economy, the Soviets will not be able to apply the balm of aid to their satellite states. This, in turn, could plunge the fragile economies of Eastern Europe into even deeper trouble...
...coming of age. But unlike the plot in Dillion's Little Darlings coming of age in Bixby. Oklahoma doesn't involve a virgin's race to promiscuity. Instead, it deals with the education of a fifteen-year-old's sentiments as Tex reconciles his idealized happiness with his seemingly stagnant and often trying life...