Search Details

Word: stagnant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...troubles immediate. As the play's narrator, Rouse's performance is enthusiastic and solicitous of the audience's sympathy--it gives the show a "Masterpiece Theatre" quality. As a doctor who can scarcely help his patients, Stone's Harmon resigns himself to a glassy stoicism which gives him a stagnant quality...

Author: By Marco M. Spino, | Title: Living on the Edge | 5/4/1995 | See Source »

...They were a better team than I had expected," Rueb said. "But I thought that we were a little bit stagnant--we didn't do a good job of moving and crossing. We were just playing traditional doubles...

Author: By Jill L. Brenner, | Title: M. Tennis Tops Brown | 4/22/1995 | See Source »

Silvera says researchers in all areas of the sciences are feeling the combined effects of stagnant or shrinking grants and increased research costs...

Author: By Jeffrey N. Gell, | Title: Scientists Scramble To Keep Funding | 3/10/1995 | See Source »

Before this weekend, Harvard's offensive was stagnant. The team scored 17 goals in seven games and lost five of those seven...

Author: By David S. Griffel, | Title: Harvard's One-Man Show | 2/27/1995 | See Source »

Such concerns have helped darken the outlook for executives like Stafford. Instead of the strong earnings she once expected, Stafford looks for profits at her company to be "stagnant or slightly down this year.'' Meanwhile, she is keeping her expansion plans on hold for at least six to nine months. She may know by then whether Greenspan has indeed trimmed growth by the amount he intended-or sent the recovery packing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THAT SINKING FEELING | 2/6/1995 | See Source »

Previous | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 | 81 | 82 | 83 | 84 | 85 | Next