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It was as if I was living in a stagnant pool and cancer dynamited the boulder that was separating me from the larger sea.
Looks like an oval with a paddle wheel and mixes really well, but when it gets around the last turn, which I call turn four — it's stagnant.
And many think that these countries are stagnant, but they are not.
What we found is that these rooms remained relatively stagnant until Saturday, when we opened the vents up again.
The result is stagnant wages, more than a quarter of 25- to 54-year-olds in America, in Japan and in Europe out of work.
The lung is thought to have evolved as a structure to allow early fish, many of which lived in warm, stagnant water with little oxygen, to take advantage of the abundant oxygen in the air overhead.
And when you get stagnant water, you get mosquitoes.
But even in our own world, the developed world, we see the tension of stagnant economies impacting the lives of people around us.
And I felt I was stuck; I was stagnant.
Well, the thesis of "The Bottom Billion" is that a billion people have been stuck living in economies that have been stagnant for 40 years, and hence diverging from the rest of mankind.
That gets its color from a unique combination of manure, chemicals and a particular type of algae that grows in the stagnant water.
Or at a minimum, we could face lots of underemployment or stagnant wages, maybe even declining wages.
Income there stayed stagnant, as it zoomed ahead in the rest of the world.
In the United States, since 2001 we've had five years of economic growth, five years of productivity growth in the workplace, but median wages are stagnant and the percentage of working families dropping below the poverty line is up by four percent.
In a sense, the character becomes stagnant.
Overacted and somewhat stagnant in interpretation, I found her rather silly and definitely boring.
Selton Mello plays André a son who seeks to control his inner passions with the stagnant philosophy of his father.
Whether that love has caused your relationship to become stagnant, or has brought anger from the one you love cheating for years, or has broken your heart to the point of being unable to open yourself up to the world, love hurts.
While Hollywood got sort of stagnant during the few years after WWII, England developed a very prolific film industry.
Both Kate Beckinsale and Gyneth Paltrow are convincing in their remorse but Paltrow's is more childlike and stagnant while Beckinsale's awakening is rather real and serious and you see the transition from child-like, selfish behavior to kind and thoughtful adult.
Hallmarks of the category include female chauvinist perspectives, emasculated or violent male characters (if there are any men to speak of), long stagnant takes shot on digital video, and an aggressive tendency toward unresolved endings.
She is absolutely flawless, and she is certainly a breath of fresh air in a film that is often quite stagnant and misguided.
Staying right with the third installation's method of haphazardly taping together some goofy, inconsequential plot out of a few recent horror flicks (this time Saw, Grudge, and Village get the honors) to produce yet another stagnant parody that produces yet another few hilarious moments.
Some 60% of the world’s population lives in countries with stagnant or shrinking workforces.
Apart from its moral implications, such a society would face a classic dilemma: how to reconcile the relentless pressure to consume with stagnant earnings.
On the other hand, Italy's economy as a whole is stagnant: in the last ten years Italy has been growing more slowly than the median in Europe, which is already seeing much lower growth rates than the United States.
How are these two economic facts to be reconciled and what does this divided economy tell us about Europe, east and west, as well as other economies where the percentage of people in work may be stagnant or falling?
In Italy, the country's stagnant GDP masks two phenomena which cancel each other out.
The result in many countries has been stagnant real wages, increased inequality, and a potential structural bias toward deficient nominal demand.
A better strategy would also entail policies that address the structural drivers of stagnant wages and consumption.
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