Word: stagnant
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...local grocer who runs a business across the street has a far less positive view--he bemoans the stagnant economy of the region...
...other hand, if we just ignore it, it can become stagnant or fall backwards...
...that stimulate the growth of riverine forests, flush out wetlands and rejuvenate them with fertile silt. Deprived of high-water surges, wetlands quickly die. In the 1960s, for example, flood-control canals transformed South Florida's wild Kissimmee River from a sinuous network of oxbows and tributaries into a stagnant ditch. The disastrous result: nearly 18,200 hectares (45,000 acres) of prime wetlands disappeared. Waterfowl and fish populations plummeted. Last year, in a startling about-face, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the South Florida Water Management District proposed to unleash the Kissimmee by filling...
Writing last April in the weekly magazine the Jerusalem Report, Natan Sharansky, a former prisoner of conscience in the U.S.S.R. and a leading spokesman for Soviet Jews, complained that "in the existing stagnant economic and political system, there is no place for the enormous energy the immigrants bring with them." Unless Israel develops an "open economy," he warned, the Zionist dream itself will be in jeopardy. Sharansky picked up that theme again in the latest issue of the Report: "Whether this exodus will become a great blessing or a terrible burden for our country depends on how our government meets...
...Formalist' is such a dirty word," Bryson says. "American formalism is a stagnant and uninteresting movement. I would not associate Alain's formalism with American formalism...