Word: stagnant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the gates are up, they will oscillate with the sea. Thus even as they hold back the water, they will allow the sea's wave motion to pass to the lagoon. This will help prevent the gates from making the lagoon more stagnant and polluted. "The technology isn't new, but the combination is," says Franco De Siervo, technical director for the consortium. "There is nothing like it in the world...
...offense was stagnant," freshman Peter Richards said. "We controlled them defensively for a while, but we got a couple of bad breaks, and they completely shut us down...
...such works as "4:33," in which no sound is heard except the environment where the piece is "played," and others works of "chance," in which he tosses coins to determine how the melody will progress, the native Californian has been seen as an innovator in today's occasionally stagnant art world, and one critic has labeled him the "apostle of indeterminacy in music...
Meanwhile, the drainage basins at the intersection of Memorial Dr. and John F. Kennedy St. still have not been cleaned out. The basins, which are filled with stagnant water and garbage were scheduled to be cleaned out last week...
...country's most imminent threat is waterborne epidemics. Thousands of flood victims are suffering from severe diarrhea. Health officials warn that widespread malaria, spawned by stagnant pools of floodwater, may be next. A World Health Organization epidemiologist predicts that even if epidemic conditions are kept under control, 4,000 children will probably die from gastrointestinal diseases...