She drove slowly out of the yard and stalled the engine again.

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"They said they had carried food and water for only one month and they had been in the sea for two months after the ship engine stalled, " police spokesman Prishantha Jayakody told the Reuters news agency.

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Billionaire Peter Thiel, for example, argues that despite spectacular advances in computer-related fields, technological progress has actually stalled because the internal combustion engine still rules our highways, the cancer death rate has barely changed since 1971, and the top speed at which people can travel has ceased to improve.

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In launching this, Howard Schultz, the head of the company called small business an engine for job growth that has stalled and said small entrepreneurs must have access to credit so they can hire again.

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This is the promise of the rotary engine, a century-old technology that stalled two decades ago but may rev again.

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Second, Fogel is right to note that migration of labor to cities has been the engine of Chinese growth, but that process has stalled in the global economic downturn.

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