Word: stagnantly
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...Sept. 11 was China. Now its outlook is dicier. Approximately 40% of China's exports are typically sold to America's now-stumbling economy. But China could sail through the war on terrorism?if it's quick and clean. Property is still booming in Beijing, and Shanghai's once-stagnant real estate market is enjoying a revival. At the ritzy Oriental Plaza shopping mall, a few blocks from the Forbidden City, merchants claimed no drop in business after the attacks. "Why should what happened in the U.S. affect what I buy today?" asks Liao Xun, a Beijing hairstylist checking...
...period of almost stagnant growth for the insurance industry, for instance, Allstate has made diversity pay substantial dividends. Its Hispanic business has nearly doubled, to almost $2 billion...
Both parties are more interested in implementing their own version of the same stagnant status quo than in innovating new solutions for the tenacious problems that persist...
...Ireland and Spain has marginalized the men of war. Eventually they simply become a nuisance factor. But the economic context in the Balkans and the Middle East, for example, is quite different. Macedonia's fragile peace has plenty of potentially fatal flaws that could cause its collapse, and the stagnant economy hardly provides a reassuring foundation for the brave new state envisaged in the political agreement. And while economics has little direct impact on the fact that Israel and the Palestinians are moving daily further away from a return to the peace process, the near-total collapse of the Palestinian...
...notion that bad economic news means the Fed is more likely to cut interest rates, cheering stocks and bonds alike with the prospect of cheaper money and stimulated corporate investment. And bad news there was - the Conference Board reported that consumer confidence fell in a July of stagnant stock prices and rising layoffs, and the National Association of Purchasing Managers said that manufacturing, in a coma for many months now, was still getting worse...