Word: stagnant
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...than 50 yards away. In the present summer season, rains flood the rivers and the jungle trails that make up the infiltration routes. By July, the middle of the arid winter season, the water holes will have dried up; the soldiers will have to quench their thirst at the stagnant pools buffaloes use for wallowing. Ticks, fleas and horseflies are constant irritants, and at night elephant herds have been known to lumber blindly through troop positions. But the main hazard is the growing number of guerrillas coming across the borders. Says one major: "No army has ever had to fight...
...market has been roiling ever since Philip Morris in 1970 acquired full control of Miller Brewing, a Milwaukee company with a well-known label but stagnant sales. In came a team that knew little about the relative merits of hops and barley but was highly skilled in the arts of advertising, packaging, cost analysis and marketing. John Murphy, who was Philip Morris' chain-smoking, beer-quaffing international executive vice president, was made head of Miller, and he brought to his office the same marketing drive that had made Philip Morris the biggest American tobacco company in Europe, Africa...
With Dave Archambault out for hooking, the Harvard power play, stagnant at best since the B.U. game (Cook's last), gave a 33 second man-up clinic to Northeastern with successful results...
Each detective mauls each culprit. Simon takes it with world-weary stoicism, his eyes like stagnant pools. Jimmy cries like an abused child. Eventually, the tortured and the torturers seem more like kin than enemies. Playwright Babe skillfully evokes their dawning camaraderie. Where he goes wrong is in tagging on the murky moral that all men are brothers or, perhaps, unisexual...
...relationships. There is no redifinition of a women's role in relation to a man here. If a man is dominant and aggressive the woman simply leaves him. If he is weak and easily patronized the women can stay. There are no struggles, no ugly scenes. Relationships either remain stagnant or are broken off. Commitments are never considered. They would only mess up Varda's tidy system...