The highest summer temperatures often associate with stagnant high-pressure systems in which there is very little wind.
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China Telecom has long been looking for an opening to diversify out of the stagnant fixed-line business into the mushrooming mobile sector.
Instead of spending so much on police and welfare, we could be spending money on rebuilding badly dilapidated infrastructure and juicing up stagnant inner-city economies.
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Another huge turnaround can be seen in New Orleans, which ranked a dismal 43rd for 2000-09 as residents fled not only Katrina but a stagnant, low-wage, corruption-plagued economy.
In contrast, Europe may be able to maintain a steady level of prosperity--even with lower growth, since its population will be either stagnant or declining--at least until the looming costs of maintaining a welfare state impose onerous economic burdens.
This prospect -- relatively stagnant family incomes combined with family health-care costs that double every decade -- is what America's middle class should contemplate as it thinks about the imperative of health reform.
Two recent newspaper stories underscored a problem several states are experiencing--stagnant or falling populations.
So is Japan, in its fourth year of deflation after a decade of near-stagnant growth and recession.
In Germany, as in France, output did not contract, however it slowed to a level that is near-stagnant.
Cuomo said the plan would create jobs in a long-stagnant upstate economy by connecting academic research campuses with businesses in those fields.
Investment and tourism from the Gulf have restored some confidence in battered Lebanon, pushing Beirut's long-stagnant stock index up by 38% since December.
New York is one of the nation's highest-taxed states and the plan would serve as a way to create jobs in a long-stagnant upstate economy.
Coming of age in a stagnant, post-bubble world of shrunken possibilities, they are angry, indulgent, individualistic--and perhaps Japan's best hope for developing a more dynamic and responsive society.
"Future home of Moynihan Station" reads a billboard that has sat for years on the main entrance staircase, heralding long-stagnant promises for a massive Amtrak main terminal, with ticketing and waiting areas, plus retail shops.
Based on franchise valuations, revenue and attendance trends over the past few years, the most stagnant team businesses--those with the greatest likelihoods of hitting the road at some point--are those stuck in outdated arenas and stadiums.
Worse, the entire DVR category's essentially remained stagnant as well -- one study found that the average DVR-enabled family records just 15-20 percent of the TV they watch, a startlingly low number by any measure.
On Thursday, Japan's central bank unveiled a plan to buy trillions of yen more in government bonds and other assets, as part of a new easing campaign to depress long-term yields and eventually revive the long-stagnant economy.
Mr. SAWLIS: And it has to be high salty, brackish-type water, as opposed to our other friend, the house mosquito, which likes foul, stagnant water, high-polluted content.
Median household income has been stagnant since the twenty-first century began.
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Undoubtedly, Venezuela will remain divided no matter the next president, but fair and transparent elections will help ensure the next administration has the political capital to tackle needed reforms -- from a stagnant economy to rising crimes rates, rampant transnational crime and the rebuilding of the nation's powerful state-owned oil company -- that will benefit all Venezuelans.
And innovation will mean that activities within the stagnant sector, like hand-delivered post, can be replaced by alternatives where productivity improvements are more likely, like texts and e-mail.
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This is the result of increased demand in essential, commodity-based assets that comes at the same time unemployment, stagnant wages and tighter credit cause consumers to put off big-ticket purchases.
Many non-Western literatures were stagnant before Western fiction, the modern printing press and the bookstore made significant inroads.
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For the full year 2012, Samsung accounted for more than 30% of smartphone sales worldwide, increasing its lead over Apple whose market share remained stagnant at about 20% y-o-y.
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For higher education, the administration is responding to years of stagnant support for grants to lower-income college students with a major increase in Pell Grants, which go to the neediest students.
For the full year 2012, Samsung accounted for more than 30% of the smartphone sales worldwide, increasing its lead over Apple whose market share has remained stagnant at almost 19% y-o-y.
The rising cost of health insurance is the reason that middle-class wages have been stagnant for a decade.
Stagnant math and reading scores for 17-year-olds, and a decline in science scores.
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