Word: stagnantly
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...tells me it would make her more comfortable if I would join her. I'm standing in the doorway to Jacky's hut. About me are flea-infested dogs, puddles of stagnant water several inches deep with garbage, and all around is the stench of smoldering trash. The horror of this daily existence is tangible. I don't like being in this place, and I find depressing the idea of living in a world that has places like this in it. And I know a hit of the mad medicine is the easiest way to make this all seem bearable...
When the Core curriculum was instituted in 1979, it was hailed as a revolution in higher education, making the front page of The New York Times. But over the last two decades, the Core has gone from a visionary proposal to a stifling and stagnant attempt to provide Harvard undergraduates with a liberal arts education...
...entered the consumer market in 1972 with pocket calculators. Its growth and capital launched Silicon Valley, but Hewlett seemed prouder of HP's management style, stressing creativity and teamwork. Billionaires Hewlett and Packard rejoined the company in 1990, when they saw it had become unprofitable and stagnant--not the "HP Way." They turned the firm around while competitors remained...
...stagnant scores on these exams have frustrated school leaders in Cambridge, who had anticipated positive effects of recent literacy and curriculum initiatives...
...high-speed rail have a real shot at success. Since it was cobbled together from the ruins of the freight railroads' dying passenger business in 1971, Amtrak has chugged through $23 billion in federal funds and been plagued by an entrenched bureaucracy, pork-barrel politics, high labor costs and stagnant ridership--all the things, in short, you might expect from a state-run monopoly...