Word: stagnantly
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...that may or may not ever hit the streets but lots of beautiful, must-have cars. Despite a booming truck business and recent gains in market share against its troubled crosstown rivals Ford and Chrysler, GM still lumbers under the burdens borne by all the Big Three: in a stagnant economy, overcapacity and intractable labor costs have obliterated profit margins. Meanwhile, the soaring value of the dollar against the yen is giving Detroit's Japanese competitors an even bigger advantage than they already have through more efficient operations. Says Morgan Stanley analyst Stephen Girsky: "When foreign manufacturers have...
...usual conception of the homeless as hardcore unemployed, 1 in 5 residents of shelters now holds a full- or part-time job. These people--waiters, security guards, laborers and other low-paid workers--once earned enough to pay their rent but are now squeezed between high housing costs and stagnant wages, worsened by the recession. While the minimum wage of $5.15 has not changed since 1997, housing costs in 10 cities surveyed by the National Coalition for the Homeless, among them Oakland, Calif., and Minneapolis, Minn., have shot up between 19% and 26% this year alone. That means a family...
...most salient barometers of a culture's well-being is its treatment of women. It is no accident that the nations with the least respect for women's rights are also the most stagnant in every other way. There will be no future for the Middle East beyond the perpetuation of its present agonies unless there is a fundamental revolution in its approach to gender and power. EDWARD FOX Toronto...
...Triangle wasn’t suited for our personnel,” Delaney-Smith said. “I thought it was too easy for teams to take away our inside game last year. I thought our post play was too stagnant in triangle and it was too easy to double inside, so we’re running something where we slash a lot more...
...Flex] is suited for people like Tricia, who can be a guard or a forward,” Monti said. “When we were running triangle, we were stagnant, but there’s so much more movement...