Word: stagnantly
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...irritating as they are, the subsidies, which mostly take the form of government loan guarantees, are a sideshow to the main contest, as Bombardier and Embraer jockey for position in a market that, while stagnant today, is expected to soon 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. Airline-industry analysts say regional jets are key to many airlines' survival...
...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 loan guarantees, are a sideshow to the main contest, as Bombardier and Embraer jockey for position in a market that, while stagnant today, is expected to soon 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. Airline-industry analysts say regional jets...
...troops were advancing on Baghdad, President Bush called his own pause in the war last week to meet with a group of economists in an effort to refocus attention on his economic plan. The meeting was billed as a thoughtful discussion of the challenges confronting the stagnant economy, but participants described it as largely a cheerleading session for the most controversial element of Bush's plan: the $364 billion elimination of taxes on dividends. "Clearly it was a biased group," said a participant, noting that many of the invitees came from securities firms that will stand to benefit from...
...much as I loved living in Paris, the Seine's heady cocktail of diesel oil and stagnant water was not enough to make me tie the knot. Eventually I moved on, leaving my boat for other affairs: a dalliance with a house in Berkeley, a fling with a high-rise in Hong Kong. But I still look back on my Parisian home with wistfulness and a hint of self-satisfaction. At any gathering of Iyer's global souls, a houseboat in Paris trumps a penthouse in Manhattan every time...
Layoffs, early retirements, resignations prompted by disillusionment with corporate life--all are producing a host of 50-pluses who feel too young and vital to consider not working and whose stagnant or shrinking retirement savings demand that they continue to earn a salary. "Retirees want and need to keep working now more than ever before," says Rudy Lewis, president of the National Association of Home-Based Businesses in Owings Mills, Md. "But they prefer not to do it on someone else's time clock at this point in their lives...