Word: stagnantly
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SOCIAL FALLOUT After remaining almost stagnant for a decade, inflation has reached at least 6.5% in Saudi Arabia. Protests and riots have ensued in some nations...
...down. It continued last fall with the frantic efforts by the Fed and its counterparts in Europe to keep skittish banks lending to one another, and this year with more rate cuts from the Fed. These policies can't cure longer-run problems like the low savings rate and stagnant wages, and they'll probably have all sorts of unpleasant side effects (inflation, for one). But you don't have to work at Visa to think they're preferable to reliving the 1930s...
Velocity is hardly a term called to mind by today's Italy, hobbled as it is by a stagnant economy, failing infrastructure and nonfunctioning government. So perhaps it makes sense that Rome's city council, eager to point out that stasis is not Italy's natural condition, is sponsoring an exhibition that showcases the fastest of the country's past glories. "The Legend of Speed: Art, Motorization and Society in 20th Century Italy" at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni takes visitors on a journey through a century of Italian art, design, fashion, cinema and technology to remind them of what global...
...question, it seems to me, is not really whether this TIME article is correct in its severe judgment on the state of French culture. My opinion is that it probably is correct, and that in fact many artists from my country are a bit provincial, a little stagnant, unbearably narcissistic and inward-looking. It is not bad to see this denounced. But this bizarre text, the more I think about it, seems less and less a survey of France and more and more a savage reflection of the state of American culture itself. This article speaks truly of America...
...until 1930 that Flemish students could study in their own language at a Belgian university. Now, with the decline of heavy industry, Wallonia is in a slump while Flanders is one of Europe's richest and most dynamic regions. And many Flemish resent having to subsidize Wallonia's stagnant economy with an annual handout estimated at around $9 billion, or about $3,000 for each Walloon...