Word: stagnant
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Like most European nations, France is in severe economic trouble. Price increases in 1977 are expected to average just under 10%; industry is stagnant; the number of jobless workers has jumped 23% in the past year, to a near record 1,159,000. What makes France different is that the economy is also in a race of sorts: how much it improves in the next few months-if it does at all-may determine whether a government that includes Communists comes to power as a result of the legislative elections that must be held by next March. True, the Socialist...
...Socialists wanted to take over only those that are wholly owned, while the Communists had their eye on all those in which the parent company's stake was greater than 50%. Business reacted to news of the impasse with jubilation: the next day stock prices on the stagnant Paris Bourse climbed 4%. Today the index stands almost 24% above its level last...
SLEEPY SOUTHERN TOWNS breed insanity. The stagnant air and oppressive mugginess drive their inhabitants crazy. Eccentricities grow into neuroses and simpletons live their empty lives in third floor attics or jilted spinsters spend decades frightening little children who walk on their lawns. In the Harvard Premiere Society's Complex, undergraduate Forrest M. Stone improvises on this theme, turning a modern apartment complex in Alabama into a way-station for a variety of misfits and lunatics...
...into the details of her departure from the party, which was prompted by the 1958 revelations about Stalin's purges, because she does not want to undermine the validity of the years she spent with the C.P. By 1958, she says simply she felt the party had become stagnant through having been forced underground; more effective work for the cause could be done through outside radical movements. She and her husband, a radical labor lawyer, had no regrets about the time they spent with the party--in a way, she writes, "the Party experience proved to have been a kind...
...South America, the Pan American Health Organization (a branch of WHO), UNICEF and the U.S. Agency for International Development had cooperated with national governments in financing a massive extermination operation. In hundreds of yellow-painted Jeeps and trucks equipped with tanks of insecticides, crews traveled everywhere, spraying pools of stagnant water, obvious breeding areas for mosquitoes. Helmeted personnel entered millions of houses and shacks to spray the walls, on the rationale that the oily DDT residue would knock out any disease-carrying mosquito that alighted there.* The campaign succeeded so well that malaria was reduced in many countries...