These two poles, stasis and dynamism, increasingly define our political, intellectual, and cultural landscape.
After four years of stasis on the trade front, the new environment is a welcome change.
The psychological stasis that Adjmi captures with such skill is the bright doom of an unexamined life.
Even though ESO worked on the idea for almost a decade, the project is now officially in stasis.
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As Schering-Plough faces various hurdles, Roche's pharmaceuticals division finally sees some potential for growth after years of stasis.
It is easy to see why many defenders of diversity decry the passing of previous cultures, favoring stasis over innovation.
Federalism, a divided legislature, temporary investiture of power in the executive and the procedural rules of governance all promote stasis.
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Most investment goes simply to maintaining economic stasis by replacing the existing capital stock as it wears out and becomes obsolete.
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But innovation in energy, transportation, health care and education has suffered too much stasis because of higher capital costs and regulatory burdens.
Germany, despite hints of a Japanese-style undertow, has just voted for stasis.
If only one company is advertising, market share goes up, but in a heavy advertising battle it can start to seem like stasis.
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In any case, doing the same tasks year in and year out is bound to turn into monotony, which leads to boredom and stasis.
It is not a stasis that represents an enduring business model.
The framework has four rules, about loneliness, stasis, overcrowding, and reproduction.
The implication is clear: Defined benefit pensions thrive in stasis.
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He stands for markets against government, he argues, for innovation against stasis, for using the surplus to create new social services rather than just to patch up old ones.
The near-stasis for speculators came as metals prices rallied.
The practical and procedural politics of the UN is trickier, but unless the last-minute negotiations deliver something dramatic, the arguments in favour of at least securing the Vatican option surely outweigh stasis.
But "TRON: Legacy" turns out to be a little too much like one of those logy trapped-on-Planet X sci-fi movies from the 1950s: There's a lot of dramatic stasis undergirding the visual wow.
Executives at Stasis Engineering, a formerly Sonoma, Calif.
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Gould, a palaeontologist, observed that there are long periods of stasis in the fossil record, which is true, and inferred from this that selfish genery is therefore wrong because it predicts continual change, which is questionable.
As it was, I missed the death, I missed the body, I got the dust, and from these facts I tried to extrapolate a story, as writers will, but found myself, instead, in a kind of stasis.
For Poland, with 39m people the biggest of the aspiring entrants by far, European integration will feel like a muted reprise of the 1989 revolution, which turned a supposedly classless stasis into a capitalist melee of winners and losers.
How do you maintain and increase your momentum to avoid organizational stuck spots the spots of stasis usually found between inflection points where the company stops growing and swirls around at approximately the same level of annual revenue before sliding precipitously backward?
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