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.
But it would be an accurate reflection of the curious political stasis of a largely contented country.
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The forces of stasis private and public unions, environmentalists and lobbyists for every sort of entitlement are well organized.
Against the inner stasis of these two worlds, Freyn offers his ancient insight the redemptive anarchies of intuition.
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.
This does not mean, however, that the political situation in the country will be one of total stasis.
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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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Investors fled amid a perception that India's economic boom is faltering under stubborn inflation, mounting debt, infrastructure bottlenecks and political stasis.
What starts as a last fling at freedom becomes for the two men but centrally for Miles a confrontation with middle age and stasis.
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.
That stillness reflects the diplomatic stasis of the defunct Six-Party Talks, and the inability of Washington to devise a new approach that could change North Korea's behavior.
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 Chicago, like almost all America's older cities, still faces the prospect of decline, or at best stasis, unless it can find the elixir of urban life how to grow richer without growing bigger.
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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.
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