The fear is that the expected recovery in second-quarter GDP, after a near-stagnant start to the year, may not prove durable.
"When the water is stagnant, it starts to smell," the manager said.
A decade of flat, stagnant wages started even before the financial crisis of 2008 and isn't improving, according to data from the Economic Policy Institute.
Cabletron suffered through two years of falling sales and stagnant profits starting in 1997 as larger rivals such as Cisco Systems csco and 3Com coms beat it to market with new products.
That might not seem like much, but similarities can be drawn between other stagnant companies that start to face existential crises.
Those criteria, especially the 10-cm rule, are not supported by research, which shows that even a slow-growing stagnant understorey may start growing well (Vuokila, 1982; Ferlin, 2002).
By the mid-80s, Moore had revolutionized American comics, first by jump-starting stagnant DC title Swamp Thing, turning it into a book of existential examination with ecological concerns, and then by creating Watchmen, which was the first comic to really turn the whole superhero trope on its ear, and which of course led to an abysmally terrible movie last year (which Moore, thankfully, disavows).
The leader of the pro-independence Polisario Front in the disputed Western Sahara territory called for a meeting with the King of Morocco to jump-start stagnant peace talks.
The Jets were looking for help at the position because contract talks with Dewayne Robertson, a first-round draft pick, have been stagnant and the starting defensive tackle Josh Evans is likely to miss at least half the season for violating the N.F.L.'s substance abuse policy for a third time.
However, from 2006 onwards, case notification became stagnant and even started to show a declining trend. 1 2 It is likely that a substantial number of cases are not notified under the National Tuberculosis Programme (NTP), and are probably getting treatment from the private sector or not receiving care at all.
U.P.S. said its volume of such shipments began slowing in October and November, followed by stagnant shipments at the start of the holiday season.
