Word: stagnantly
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...projecting a $304 billion federal deficit this year, plus annual flows of red ink as far as the eye can see, it's fair to say that Ross Perot's crazy aunt is back. In the 1992 campaign, the folksy, jug-eared Texas zillionaire rode public anxiety over the stagnant economy - specifically the burgeoning national debt he compared to a crazy aunt in the basement no one wanted to mention - to the best third-party showing in a presidential election in 80 years. Budget deficits became such a potent political issue that Bill Clinton was forced to abandon much...
...Gilded Age has the wealth distribution in the U.S. been so polarized, and have business interests controlled the government so completely. Now, the extremely wealthy are slated to get an enormous tax cut as American workers lose their jobs, lose their welfare benefits and lose hope in a stagnant economy. The plutocrats stole the last presidential election, and now they’re trying to steal the government money that millions of working Americans rely upon...
While desperation drives many students to forsake sleep for nights of uncomfortable chairs and stagnant air, one group of first-years this exam period just did it for the bragging rights...
That failure is stunning. The Arab lands lie at the heart of an arc of crisis from Marrakech to Bangladesh. Autocracies, often dynastic, remain the principal form of government; economies are stagnant; violence is a common way of resolving political debate. Last summer the U.N. Development Programme commissioned a panel of regional experts to write an Arab Human Development Report. It was perhaps the most important volume published in 2002. "The wave of democracy that transformed governance in most of Latin America and East Asia in the 1980s and Eastern Europe and much of Central Asia in the late 1980s...
...woes. She is an energetic political figure who is not afraid to stand up against a popular Republican administration and tell them why they’re wrong. A minority leader should not be a moderate consensus builder like Rep. Richard A. Gephardt (D-Mo.) often was. With a stagnant economy and the possibility of war looming, the Democrats need to define their agenda and keep the administration in check...