Word: stagnantly
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...they can bear it.'' Still, as Israel turns 40, it seems unhappy, agitated and exhausting. The idealistic founding energies have matured into certain disillusions of middle age. The moral discrepancy in the original ideal has come home to roost. Israel's political leadership is divided and essentially stagnant, taken by surprise by the Palestinian uprising, paralyzed by the dilemma of the territories. Public opinion is splintered between hard-liners who want to keep all the land and those willing to take the chance of giving some of it up for peace. On neither side, in Israel, is the matter...
While American exports to Southeast Asia have been virtually stagnant for the past five years, Chinese trade with the region is soaring. In the northern reaches of Thailand and Laos, you can find whole towns where Mandarin has become the common language and the yuan the local currency. In Chiang Saen, signs in Chinese read CALL CHINA FOR ONLY 12 BAHT A MINUTE. A sign outside the Glory Lotus hotel advertises CLEAN, CHEAP ROOMs in Chinese. It is not aid from the U.S. but trade with China--carried on new highways being built from Kunming in Yunnan province to Hanoi...
...quick fixes to cheaply and easily make everything “work out.” This is why it has been ignored. Europe’s demographic implosion cuts across countries that are both post-communisst and Western European, religious and secular, small and large, economically stagnant and dynamic, and virtually any other category one sees fit to create. Like the editors of the HPR, I do not have a fully formed explanation for this, maybe because there simply isn’t one. I don’t, however, think that anything or anyone is helped by trying...
...return to the intelligent-but-unrefined rap style Jay first displayed on “Reasonable Doubt,” but it’s a solid addition to his discography. Jay-Z is obviously growing as a person; unfortunately, as a rapper, he’s grown stagnant...
...Murphy said. “Both guys did a solid job at times, but it’s eleven men out there, not just the quarterback.”It didn’t matter much who the quarterback was—Harvard’s running game remained stagnant, the pressure up front rarely relented, and tipped balls, overthrown passes, and good Yale coverage downfield continued to keep the Crimson from ever mustering a realistic chance at a comeback.“It was tough for our offense to get a rhythm going today,” Pizzotti said...