Dubbed in the not so recent past the "sick man of Asia," the Philippine economy faced a standstill for three decades with uneven growth, rampant corruption, and massive poverty.
With the overall arts budget down from £341.4m to £339.5m, and with most continuing national portfolio organisations (NPOs) facing standstill grants (hence, effective reductions) many will share John Tusa's enraged verdict on the attitude of British government to the arts that "nitpicking around the edges of a tiny budget is not an arts policy.
Carlyle Capital, a mortgage-debt fund facing $400 million in margin calls, requested a standstill agreement with its lenders.
"Now that I am at a standstill, I have to face the question of what we as a family are doing and how we are going to do into the future," Mr. Winters said.
Carlyle Capital, an affiliate of the private equity firm the Carlyle Group, said on Monday it had asked lenders for a standstill agreement as it faces more than $400 million in margin calls.
The real story, as explained by Linda Greenhouse, a former New York Times reporter who now teaches at Yale Law School, and Reva Siegel, a professor there, is that political conflict over abortion was escalating before the Roe decision, and that state progress on decriminalization had reached a standstill in the face of opposition from the Roman Catholic Church.
Thousands of motorists were trapped in their cars in Brittany and Normandy, and 10,000 lorries were brought to a standstill as parts of France also faced harsh conditions.
As America filibusters itself to a standstill, the rest of the Anglo-Saxon world faces hung parliaments.
To say the economy is at a standstill is to fly in the face of reality.
Wong became the student face of the Umbrella Movement, which brought parts of Hong Kong to a standstill in 2014.
If the Taliban in Afghanistan fight the coalition to a standstill while their Pakistani counterparts improve their position, he will face considerable pressure to bring American troops home.
