Word: stagnantly
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...between bites about hyper self-awareness and grueling football practice.“You know,” he says, “I’ve always been weary of being a regular somewhere or having a regular. I think it’s the mark of a stagnant life. But I’m willing to be a regular at b. good.” He chuckles and wipes his mouth with napkin two of three. —Columnist Rebecca A. Cooper can be reached at cooper3@fas.harvard.edu...
...pressure on them all game, and they handled it well.” Pais and Gleason also tallied two ground balls each. The Big Red’s attacking threat, Libby Johnson, was held to only one goal in the match. While Cornell’s offense was stagnant, Harvard managed to tally another three goals to bring the final score to 11-7. Halpern and Martin paired up to score another two goals, while Doherty capped it off for the Crimson, scoring her first goal of the game and 15th of the season. “Everything went really...
...especially among minorities), which is needed to prepare Americans for the 21st-century jobs that will lead us out of recession. Private health care and Medicare benefits also increased substantially under President Bush. Incidentally, they are the reason that wages, which are only part of employee compensation, were supposedly stagnant under his administration. Productivity expanded, in part because Bush avoided dangerous policies like card-check, which President Obama, in the middle of a recession, now foolishly advocates. Finally, the administration’s efforts on climate change resulted in 2006 in the first decline in carbon emissions...
...Statham, 36, was an Olympic diver for the British team, and a model, before appearing in two early Guy Ritchie crime movies a decade ago. Since then, he's established himself in a couple of franchises: Transporter (three films) and Crank (two; but if the grosses stay this stagnant, don't count on a third). He's manfully filled the B-movie action slots once occupied by Jean-Claude Van Damme and Steven Seagal. His movies generally pull first-weekend numbers in the teen-millions and end up in the $25-40 million domestic range - not bad for productions that...
...find it almost impossible to follow. The colors and sounds wash over us like the light of a fluorescent aquarium, the kissing faces and front doors, the rows of lockers and holding hands. We can’t separate one from another. We bob in the sweet-smelling, stagnant water of scrawled notes and abrupt breakups and triumphant, temporary reconciliations. Kids about my age sitting on logs in the breathy woods, looking out among the trees and then over at one another, with a sigh.At one moment, after six or seven episodes, I catch a glimpse of the sun shining...