Word: stagnantly
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There is little in Africa to make one happy: AIDS, civil wars, corrupt democracies, military governments and stagnant economies. Recently, though, there has been the glimmer of a renaissance, as the world has begun to focus more closely on the problems there. When I saw that TIME had celebrated the world's most powerful civil servant, Annan, an African, I felt hopeful. I am very, very proud to be an African. ASHER LULUFA VONGTAU Kaduna, Nigeria...
...issue of general legalization. At present, marijuana maintains an illogical berth in the roster of illegal drugs; the DEA website lists it alongside heroin and methamphetamine as a "drug of concern." Meanwhile, the lack of serious national debate surrounding the use of marijuana has left the country?s attitudes stagnant, with a knee-jerk reaction to the mere mention of any "illegal" drug meaning political estrangement for any politician willing to broach the topic...
...lean, tanned young women in similar uniforms--Jennifer Anderson, 26, and Lisa Hoffman, 22--toil alongside him, heaving corroded truck tires onto a towering stack. "It's hard work, but it's fun work," Hoffman says, describing a regimen of 12-hour days hauling discarded Porta Potties from stagnant, snake-filled sloughs.The crew will scour 900 miles of river this year, stopping off in towns along the way for daylong community-cleanup festivals that bring out hundreds of local volunteers...
...weapons-technology exports to countries such as Iran gives China added significance as the only country able to restrain the North Koreans." The biggest beneficiaries of rapprochement, though, would be North Korea, which stands to gain billions of dollars in aid and investment from the South to rebuild its stagnant economy. In return, South Koreans want Pyongyang to allow reunions among the hundreds of thousands of Korean families divided by the cease-fire line...
Great news! Unemployment is up. Wages are stagnant. Hiring by U.S. companies is down, for the first time in more than four years. But there might be some help wanted on Wall Street soon, because Friday's unemployment report is the stuff rallies are made of. Just a half-hour into the trading day, the Dow was up 175 and the Nasdaq almost 200 (with inflation-fearing bonds whooping it up right alongside them) as investors saw visions of the long season of economic overdrive, interest-rate hikes, and neurotic markets drawing to a close. "This is the latest sign...