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Example sentences for: stagnation

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If you believe that Reagan's 1981 tax cut was responsible for all those growth years--that otherwise we would have wallowed in stagnation for seven years--Abraham's choice may be fair enough.
How could a wealthy, productive, sophisticated country have gone from enviable growth in the 1980s to stagnation in the '90s, and now be slipping into a downward spiral of recession and deflation?
China can only save itself from its current stagnation by fixing its banking system, addressing environmental hazards, controlling government debt, and democratizing.
The impact of domestic stagnation on large Japanese companies has, of course, been dramatic.
A leader in Britain's Observer took an unusual position, claiming that the carelessly erected buildings of the 1980s, which have been blamed for the quake's massive death toll, represent Turkey's "attempt to escape from stagnation and backwardness by letting private enterprise rip."