Word: stagnantly
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...institution, but Summers’ presidency provided two reasons why rapid change might work at the traditionally intractable Harvard. First, in 2001, rapid change was just what the presidential search committee was looking for and, seemingly, just what Harvard needed. After a decade in which the University was relatively stagnant in most respects other then its endowment figures and clandestine land-purchases in Allston, Harvard had much ground to make-up—the once-per-generation Harvard College Curricular Review and the largest physical expansion of Harvard’s in its history hung in the balance...
...DePaul on Nov. 18, Harvard found itself in an insurmountable 47-18 deficit at the half. At Virginia a few weeks later, the Crimson faced a 31-22 halftime hole in Charlottesville, and not even the momentum of a sustained second half run could bring Harvard back after a stagnant first half.“We’ve tried to iron [the slow starts] out,” said Delaney-Smith after the conclusion of the Ivy season. “I guess people would say that’s what an inexperienced team does. If you open...
...those well-educated, well-off women fortunate enough to have a choice between a family and a career, a stagnant male-dominated world still drives over 40 percent of professional female graduates back into their kitchens, unable to reconcile their intellectual and familial goals...
...standards to which Australians see as their birth right) and are not expected to ease for some time. The Reserve Bank's move on interest rates last week has made suburban families in the south-eastern States uneasy, particularly as the market value of their McMansions has been stagnant (or worse...
...ballet of leading to violent crime and mental backwardness. Video games aren't so lucky. There's a sharp divide between gamers and nongamers, and the result is a market that, while large and devoted--last year video-game software and hardware brought in $27 billion--is also deeply stagnant. Its borders are sharply defined, and they're not expanding...