stasis

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More recently, he has warned that the country is sleepwalking into economic stasis, thanks to bad policies and rules that make it hard to invest in new ventures and run companies.

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But stasis doesn’t make for much of a climax, and as the couple wait in the snowbound airport, the setting also functions as a metaphor for the film as a whole.

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That means Americans without stable, full-time work are locked out of a job market that has settled into a low-hire, low-fire stasis.

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Employers hired at a middling pace in December, closing out a year that saw the U.S. labor market cool into a “low hire, low fire” stasis.

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Facts are hardly the cure for dramatic stasis, or Ken Burns would be Quentin Tarantino.

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