At the same time, some reports pointed toward economic stagnation.

Crime is not the only cause of the city's economic stagnation, however.

"This country has been in a state of economic stagnation for years, so people are desperate and have no other choice."

But since 1973, 80 percent of working Americans have seen a decline in their living standard or, at best, economic stagnation.

The 1980s were more or less a period of economic stagnation.

Most important, how would they break the country out of its present economic stagnation?

For a while the policy seemed successful; the 1980s, however, were more or less a period of economic stagnation.

This was after two years of weak government and economic stagnation.

It was never able to turn the operation around, though Japan's economic stagnation did not help.

The result will be economic stagnation, or something rather worse.