Word: stagnantly
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...those sturdy values be enough to support an army hobbled by long deployments, stagnant recruiting, prisoner scandals, and a wary public? What about the shifting military threats of asymmetric warfare? The class of 9/11 is about to find...
...doesn’t yet have the credibility to put on such a huge party. Perhaps aware of this fact, Havana organizers sought help from the Crimson Dance Team to promote the event. Despite such publicity efforts, and before the rain was ever in the picture, ticket sales were stagnant...
...other words, while pop music has fans among the youth, classical only has practitioners, which renders the scene rather insular and arguably stagnant...
During the war people kept their own reservoirs in case of fires. The water in these reservoirs lay filthy and stagnant through the year, but Kawamoto was desperately thirsty. He started toward one of the reservoirs, but saw that people were lying dead, half in, half out of the water. Coming to the Miyuki Bridge at last, he leaped down the steep stone steps, stumbling over others plummeting down. There was a logjam of bodies at the base of the steps. "I was so scared." He tried to drink the muddy water, but spit it out. He clambered...
...liners but not nearly enough for black political leaders of any persuasion. Unhappily for the government, the reforms coincided with a deepening economic crisis, the worst, in some Johannesburg analysts' view, since 1929. The price of gold, which provides more than 50% of South African export earnings, has held stagnant since 1983, and inflation (now 16%) and unemployment (estimated at 8.4% among the work force) were on the rise. The recession hit blacks hardest, and under the twin pressures of economic squeeze and political dissatisfaction, violence flared in the black townships. Much of it was directed at blacks who work...