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...miracle has been wrought," Gamal Abdel Nasser proudly announced to the people of Egypt after completion of the first stage of the Aswan High Dam. Indeed, the great structure-built with Russian aid and designed to harness the Nile and vitalize the stagnant Egyptian economy-has irrevocably changed the environment of the Nile River Valley and the lives of its inhabitants. But the results have not all been positive, and there is growing debate about whether the economic benefits of Aswan are outweighed by the ecological damage that it has caused...
Schulyer Hollingsworth'40, recording secretary of the University, said yesterday that the "poor state of the economy" was to blame for Harvard's stagnant fund raising last year...
Time passed. But time flows in many streams. Like a river, an inner stream of time will flow rapidly at some places and sluggishly at others, or perhaps even stand hopelessly stagnant. Cosmic time is the same for everyone, but human time differs with each person. Time flows the same for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different...
Photochemical oxidant pollution is most frequent with brisk southern winds and sunny days in the late spring and summer, while carbon monoxide pollution occurs most frequently in stagnant weather during peak traffic hours, he added...
What Chavez built is more than just a trade union. It is a union movement and a social movement (in the broadest sense), of enormous power and consequence, a fresh breeze wafting in the stultified air of stagnant labor movements. His is a movement as concerned with community organization as with sanitary working conditions, as interested in cooperative grocery stores as in medical insurance plans...