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  • adjective Alternately active and inactive

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Examples

  • "We are not playing the Turkish game," Economy Ministry State Secretary Zoltan Csefalvay told Reuters in an interview, referring to the stop-go game which helped Turkey retain market confidence some years ago.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • In the morning, traffic crept at a clogged and madding stop-go pace, cars and trucks halted mid-turn, stopped askew in the road.

    The Last Lion Brittany Newmark 2011

  • "Let us remember that while all past Labour governments were forced to retrench, cut back, and were overwhelmed by world conditions in 1924, 1931, 1951, 1967 and 1976, it is because we painstakingly built the foundations in economic management that we are the first Labour government with the strength to be able to plan for the long term on the basis of stability not stop-go."

    Gordon "hubris" Brown Not a sheep 2009

  • In the morning, traffic crept at a clogged and madding stop-go pace, cars and trucks halted mid-turn, stopped askew in the road.

    The Last Lion Brittany Newmark 2011

  • Regardless of China's long-term future, it's now in the stop phase of its stop-go economic policy, and a hard landing is likely.

    Hard Landing for China, Hard Times for Us A. Gary Shilling 2011

  • "We will not return to the stop-go, boom-bust years which we saw under the Conservatives."

    Archive 2008-10-01 Not a sheep 2008

  • "Vietnam's track record of stop-go policy tightening and easing has been ad-hoc, reactive and inconsistent," said

    Fitch Cuts Vietnam Ratings 2010

  • "We will not return to the stop-go, boom-bust years which we saw under the Conservatives."

    Archive 2008-10-01 Not a sheep 2008

  • Just, just remember in the 80s and the 90s the stop-go recessions when interest rates had to be pushed up sometimes to 15%, and just look now as a result of the new system - we've had ten years where we've had stability.

    Archive 2007-09-23 2007

  • Just, just remember in the 80s and the 90s the stop-go recessions when interest rates had to be pushed up sometimes to 15%, and just look now as a result of the new system - we've had ten years where we've had stability.

    The Tricky Dicky Question 2007

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