Stagnant wages (relative to labor productivity) mean that working-class consumer spending also stagnates. As Gordon searches for another job, his life deteriorates, and his poetry stagnates. Technology starts, develops, persists, mutates, stagnates, and declines, just like living organisms. Its growth stagnates and begins decline in the 1960s, when the company changes owners. This deep water stagnates and slowly moves south. The government is also able to reduce fees when the economy stagnates. The passive intellectual stagnates intellect by objectifying ideas, thus establishing them as objects. Otherwise integration process stagnates, finally leading to termination of economic unions (Belgium-Luxemburg Union). If the result of splint therapy stagnates, surgery treatment is indicated. Water stagnates longer in the central area, which is also the lowest. In rainy season water stagnates inside the shrine, which is cleared manually. The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual.