Word: stagnant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most ballyhooed work, Buckley's adaptation of his espionage novel Stained Glass, proved stagnant and pointless. Deficiencies that can be overlooked on the page -- cardboard characters, what-if plots about events from decades ago, smugness about how easy it is to distinguish between right and wrong -- are wearisome on the stage. Buckley's dialogue was, if not sesquipedalian, then not serendipitous either. The cumbersome production resulted in set changes longer than the scenes, although the scenes were not necessarily any more interesting...
...money after bad. As a result, debtor countries found themselves using more and more of their scarce currency reserves to pay their debts. Last year Latin American nations paid $26 billion in interest to their creditors but received only $6 billion worth of new bank loans. The results were stagnant growth and a rate of inflation that has soared to 400% in Argentina and 1,000% in Brazil...
...student opinion. A "Yes" vote is a demand that the word "student" be put back into student government. At stake in the balloting is the direction of the council itself. Will it increasingly use its nascent political voice to represent student opinion or will it backslide into a stagnant pool of chocolate milk and malaise...
Salinas' is but one voice in what has become a rising chorus of debtor discontent. Crippled by stagnant growth and a combined foreign debt of more than $400 billion, Latin American governments are finding it increasingly unacceptable to shoulder interest payments for loans that only push them deeper into the red. Yet the banks that made the loans, many of them privately held U.S. institutions, have come up with few acceptable solutions...
...January, with inflation running at nearly 1,500%, the cordoba was pegged at a rate of 10 for each U.S. dollar; today the rate is 1,600 to $1. In Managua outdoor markets are bordered by garbage mounds where malnourished scavengers pick through the debris in search of food. Stagnant waters have become a breeding ground for dengue fever. In rural areas a plague of rats threatens the country's sugarcane crops...