The Freedom Party was the only coalition partner that could enable Mr. Schüssel to become chancellor and end decades of ultimately stagnant rule by the Social Democrats, still Austria's largest party.
Whereas many see the new Japanese Prime Minister, Yukio Hatayama, as a change from stagnant rule by the Liberal Democratic Party, many of his policies are retrograde LDP fare none more so than those from Financial Services Minister Shizuka Kamei.
The feeling of now or never, the sense that at long last there is a chance to throw off the stagnant and thuggish rule that has held us back or been on our back for decades.
An article on the home page of the Christian Coalition questioned the wisdom of Mr. Ball's advertising campaign and echoed Detroit's claims that toughening long-stagnant fuel economy rules would lead to safety risks with only minimal environmental gains.
The economy was stagnant and, with its rules against foreign ownership and insistence on keeping debts low, the professional soccer league Bundesliga seemed downright old-fashioned.
When TC's Erick Schonfeld asked O'Connor what advice he would give to aspiring entrepreneurs, he said that the most successful entrepreneurs are not only those who are willing to break the rules and disrupt stagnant, fragmented industries, but also those willing to "throw a turd in the punch bowl".
To the originators of the change, however, the game is more aesthetically pleasing than before it took effect, when coaches were taking advantage of complex illegal-defense rules that encouraged a stagnant game.
Deutsche Bank, Germany's biggest financial firm, faces lots of slings and arrows: a never-ending barrage of fines from American regulators, tough new rules on bank capital, a stagnant European economy and listless financial markets.
More than 60 parties have registered to take part, most of them small and regional or ethnic-based.A decade ago Myanmar was economically stagnant, isolated from the outside world and ruled by a military junta.
As long as the growth style of investing rules the market, mature industries with stagnant profits will continue to underperform.
