Word: stagnant
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...doubt progress is being made, Harvard, for example, this year tenured three women--increasing its number of tenured women scholars from 18 to 21, The Faculty has also taken a decisive step to holster its long-stagnant Women's Studies program, as it started a search for its first tenured professor in the area...
...Madrid could speak with any confidence, it was because he has used his 18 months in office to put Mexico's economic house in relative order. When he took office in December 1982, the Harvard-educated economist inherited a stagnant economy with an inflation rate of more than 100%, unemployment of 8% and a plummeting peso. He quickly imposed a rigorous austerity program and renegotiated the country's short-term loans so as to make interest payments easier. De la Madrid cut the government deficit and sharply reduced imports, especially of luxury goods. As a result, Mexico should...
Even with the support of the military, Ardito Barletta will face a difficult five-year term. He will have to deal with a stagnant economy, a foreign debt of $3.3 million and pressing social problems, such as unemployment and lack of adequate housing and medical care. To continue the return to civilian rule, he will gently have to nudge the military out of politics but without provoking his own overthrow. Said Ardito Barletta last week: "One must treat the military well so that the military will treat the government well." He might soon be saying the same thing about Panamanian...
Except for a surge in the sale of postage stamps to collectors, the islands' economy is stagnant. Shopkeepers complain that, though they sell the troops quite a few Hong Kong-made mugs, flags and ashtrays, they made far more money from the British goods they once peddled to Argentine tourists. The Standard Chartered Bank has opened an office on Ross Road, but the capital still has no barber shop, laundry or auto-repair garage...
...delicate handling, however, the campaign is sputtering. Much of China's leadership remains an immovable object of orthodoxy. The staunchest Maoist loyalists are within the 4.2 million-strong People's Liberation Army, whose upper ranks have become a stagnant gerontocracy. The youngest of the nine men on the Central Military Commission is 70; three of its four vice chairmen, like Chairman Deng, have passed their 80th birthday. Even the People's Daily has been moved to complain that "some of our leading cadres are like document-reading machines, speaking rather than acting and just sitting there unless they...