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Hansen blamed a stagnant offense for the demise. "We were clogging up the middle and couldn't get good shots off," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Water Polo Is Seventh At Tourney | 4/14/1980 | See Source »

...wage-price also undermines the role of price as a signal of change. Growing industries such as coal or computers or home insulation would soon be short of new labor because the freeze would prevent them from raising wages to attract workers from declining or stagnant industries. Oil-using industries, facing rising prices abroad, would have to pay more for oil. Are they to go broke? Or again, suppose there is a poor world harvest, so that at current prices there is an excess demand for grain. How is this grain to be allocated if not by price? Another administrative...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dangerously Naive' | 4/1/1980 | See Source »

...Year Tim Daaleman upped the margin to an imposing nine by notching a layup with just eight minutes remaining. The curtains were closing when Flatt picked up his fourth foul with seven minutes remaining and the Crimson down by 11; his tough play inside had livened a stagnant offense...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Yale Runs Past Cagers, 86-75 | 1/30/1980 | See Source »

...like the idea of a growing sport; lacrosse is kind of stagnant," the Psych major said...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Two Soccer Players Make the Game Look Easy | 10/23/1979 | See Source »

...virtue of his consistency, intelligence and charisma, Ted Kennedy inspires the spirit that Jimmy Carter has always tried to capture. He is the vigilant knight who knows how to lead a stagnant country into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 8, 1979 | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

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