Word: stagnant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sudanese officials warned that stagnant pools left by the floods made ideal breeding conditions for locusts. The World Health Organization said contaminated water could cause malaria, typhoid and cholera epidemics...
Heavy security surrounded the crash site which was covered with tufts of weeds and stagnant pools. The site is about eight miles north-west of the airport and 330 miles south of Islamabad...
...basement an American canoeist who has converted a small coal bin into a stagnant river crouches on one knee and endlessly paddles nowhere. His sloshing is a nighttime sound of the neighborhood. A roller skate wedged beneath his forward foot simulates the bobbing boat. Old mirrors of every shape, rescued from dressers and garage sales, are suspended all around. In each of them, he checks his technique against the home movies he has taken of the Rumanians and Swedes. This is the Olympian getting ready...
...then that the natural growth of sea grass may be ended, as has happened in Chesapeake Bay, or sudden blooms of algae can occur, particularly in stagnant waters. The exact reasons for these spurts of algal growth are unknown. They can be triggered, for example, by extended periods of sunny weather following heavy rains. Scientists believe algal growth is speeded up by the runoff of agricultural fertilizers. The burgeoning algae form a dense layer of vegetation that displaces other plants. As the algae die and decay, they sap enormous amounts of oxygen from the water, asphyxiating fish and other organisms...
Some economists believe that if Cardenas surges at the polls, De la Madrid may declare a partial moratorium on Mexico's foreign debt. This would serve to undermine the left, allow De la Madrid to leave office drenched in public applause, and give Salinas the funds to prime a stagnant economy. Yet just as the Spanish defeat of Hidalgo's revolt against the crown only postponed Mexican independence, such fiscal populism might only delay a more fundamental political reckoning...