Word: stagnantly
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...best definition of a housing bubble is this: we are in one when most homeowners could not afford their house at its current market value. Rapidly rising prices coupled with stagnant wages in recent years have created just such a disconnect for many people. If you're one, now is the time to look at how you are using, and what you are doing to protect, your valuable home equity...
...tech industry in which news seems to trudge to the same dreary drumbeat--a relentless sales downturn, profits stagnant at best, venture capitalists with their wallets shut tight--at least Larry Ellison can still come up with a surprise. The founder of Oracle--one of the world's richest men, with company stock worth more than $17 billion--spent last week pushing a hostile bid to take over rival business-software firm PeopleSoft for a lowball price of $16 a share--about 50¢ less than the market value of the stock. Neither analysts nor competitors seemed sure whether to take...
...take as long as 10 years and cost at least $2.7 billion--could still run into obstacles, especially given the fickle nature of Italian politics. Concerned that the gates would be raised so frequently and remain there so long that they would cause water in the lagoon to grow stagnant, Greens are making that argument in an environmental-impact review that could delay or even scuttle construction. Even so, this is the closest Venice has come to a permanent solution to its water problems in 700 years. By local bureaucratic standards, that's not too bad. --By Jeffrey Kluger. Reported...
...hold and will sit down this month to try to work out a settlement. As irritating as they are, the subsidies, which mostly take the form of government loans, are a sideshow to the main contest, as Bombardier and Embraer jockey for position in a market that, while stagnant today, is expected to explode with demand. Ailing airlines of all sizes around the world have come to rely more and more on smaller, lower-maintenance regional jets - instead of clunky turboprops or inefficient larger craft - to connect hub cities with smaller markets. Analysts say regional jets are key to many...
...down reform, alone, is never going to produce true freedom in the Middle East. But the democratic openings we are seeing could create a dynamic that gradually forces the autocrats to share more power with others, truly open their stagnant economies to outside investment and respect human rights. Peace, free trade and respect for the rule of law will give democracy a better chance. Evolutionary change, so long as it is not really an excuse for the status quo, will doubtless be less disruptive than revolutionary change...