FedEx believes its deal is different; it wants to combine its air-delivery service in Europe with TNT's extensive road-based logistics network.The IMF's latest "World Economic Outlook" report warned that many countries face lower economic "speed limits", ie, reduced potential for growth, and should "adjust to a new reality" of stagnant living standards.
By trying to restrict the franchise on the margins, Republican state legislators handed Democrats a powerful tool for mobilization and persuasion, and motivated voters who might otherwise have lost some of their enthusiasm after the euphoria of "Yes We Can" gave way to the reality of a stagnant, high-unemployment economy.
By trying to restrict the franchise on the margins, Republican state legislators handed Democrats a powerful tool for mobilization and persuasion, and motivated voters who might otherwise have lost some of their enthusiasm after the euphoria of "Yes We Can" gave way to the reality of a stagnant, high-unemployment economy.I find this quite plausible.
Right-wing commentators may deny the reality of a stagnant middle class, but they are wrong.
But the reality is much more stagnant: big, hulking companies are often where innovation goes to die.
In reality, of course, wages are stagnant or declining — and that's especially true for the groups that benefit most from food stamps.
To survive, we will have to return to cost-cutting; return, that is, to the brutal reality of job losses and stagnant wages.
For years, the Democratic Party chose to overlook these tough realities: Wages are low and stagnant.
Another very important reality is that family incomes have been stagnant for the past decade for people at all but the highest income levels.
This is the reality of living life like water: cloudy when stagnant, clear when moving, taking on the shape of the environment we move through and the qualities of the elements with which we interact.
