Word: stagnantly
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...Stone also refrains from resting on her laurels and allowing experience to discourage innovation. She is willing to take risks and change course when certain strategies seem to leave Harvard stagnant. While the Crimson dominated nearly all of its competition last season, during those seven minutes against Wisconsin, Harvard seemed overwhelmed by the Badgers’ speed and was unable to adjust to the pace of the game until it was too late...
...predictions of campaigns buyoed by youth support have proven illusory before. In 2004, for example, youth voting, measured as a percentage of the overall vote, remained stagnant...
...only to return with two losses, giving up four goals and failing to score once. Over the course of the next six matches, the Crimson responded, going undefeated to improve its record to 3-2-3. But during these six games, the team’s offensive performance remained stagnant, producing only seven goals on the offensive end. This alarming trend hurt Harvard as it began its Ivy season traveling to Philadelphia, where the Penn women thumped the Crimson to the tune of a 2-0 victory. Harvard was still resting on that one wrong foot. The defense was stellar...
...will be successful. “New technology initiatives do not create jobs in depressed areas,” she said. Jasanoff concluded by emphasizing the need for fundamental shifts in U.S. behavior and ideology. “Just seeing the United States come out of this stagnant, backward-looking, imperialist period will hopefully inspire Americans,” she said. Jonathan M. Kaufman ’12 said he agreed with Jasanoff that the environment is a vital issue in the upcoming election. “I was actually kind of appalled by the [low] attendance...
...lengthy productivity slump beginning in the early 1970s that created concern among economists such as Krugman. Low productivity growth explained much of what had gone wrong with the U.S. economy: stagnant wages, high inflation, ground lost to Japan. But what caused it? The most convincing explanation came from Northwestern University's Robert J. Gordon. In the early and mid-20th century, he argued, the U.S. benefited from a spectacular confluence of technological innovation involving electricity, the internal combustion engine, petrochemicals and communications. By the 1970s the economic impact of innovation in these fields had waned, and nothing came along...