Word: stagnant
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...aside all oil revenues to pay for the seven-year development plan drawn up by Overseas Consultants, Inc. (TIME, Oct. 24, 1949). Now, the Iran-Anglo-Iranian deadlock meant no money, no development. Meanwhile, the need for the plan had grown: Iran was reeling from crop failures, business was stagnant, half a million were unemployed...
...fascinating book. Its central character, a tempest-tossed Irishman named Ezra Arrigho, has spent the war in Germany and has just returned to Ireland to settle down in a little town. What can he say of it? Scornfully, Ezra decides that most of its people live dull, stagnant lives in little duck ponds while secretly hoping for "miracle, excitement and sensation...
...people in one small area and is exactly the more effective for that narrowing. The future world of "Night Journey" is a terrible, muddled, complicated thing. It is a logical nightmare in which a woman can watch leaflets proclaiming a free election and freedom drop from a stagnant yellow cloud, and fearfully shout that "they are coming with their elections and their germs." It is a future which jostles rudely against the present...
Though Surinam's mines provide U.S. aluminum makers with two-thirds of their bauxite, they are so mechanized that fewer than 3,000 natives work in them. For the most part, Surinamers live in stagnant torpor, surrounded by jungle, mangrove swamps, umbrella ants, red howlers, web-footed dogs, and water pigs. Most of the people suffer variously from malaria, fllariasis, dysentery or leprosy...
...business is not stagnant at all. It can carry the country to a national income level of $300 billion annually "within a very few years...