Word: stagnant
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That case was intuitively apparent in Kuwait, where hundreds of stagnant black lakes of wasted crude oil still cover miles of desert, bearing permanent witness to the threat from Iraq. Kuwait's government, says a Western official, "always asks why the U.S. can't do more against Saddam--though they know the policy the U.S. is pursuing is the only practical...
...school is trying to create a better life for the students, buying 14 new computers recently and opening an Internet connection. But with a stagnant population, Harvard has gradually been losing state education aid money. Williamson predicts the school will eventually close and be consolidated with districts in the surrounding towns. "Once they lose the school, it's going to be difficult for the community to hang on," he says...
...school is tryin to creat a better life for the students, buying 14 new computers recently and opening an Internet connection. But with a stagnant population, Harvard has gradually been losing state education aid money. Williamson predicts the school will eventually close and be consolidated with districts in the surrounding towns. "Once they lose the school, it's going to be difficult for the community to hang on," he says...
...Israel while Jews were still being persecuted throughout Europe. The Jewish State promised independence and sovereignty as well as an end to dependence upon inhospitable hosts for all Jews that were willing to make Aliyah (immigrate) to Israel and work hard at revitalizing the land that had become stagnant since their expulsion from it thousands of years before. Netanyahu's election promises revitalization and reunification of a different sought for the grandchildren of Herzl's generation...
...middle and working classes face upward-spiralling health care and education costs at a time when their real wages are stagnant or falling, Dukakis said...