While the West's economies languish, some other countries are enjoying buoyant growth, and their TV industries are flexing their muscles.

Galveston's misfortunes, as well as its size - it is a narrow, 32-mile-long barrier island - meant that its economy languished while neighboring Houston grew exponentially.

During much of the 19th century, the Honduran economy languished; traditional cattle raising and subsistence agriculture produced no suitable major export.

While real economies languish, stock markets are surging.

It said the economy would languish, recovering slowly to about a third of its prewar level and would not exceed that level for at least a quarter century.

In recent years Guangxi's economy has languished behind that of its wealthy neighbor and twin, Guangdong.

He continues to dominate Israel's politics, but his popular support has faded as the economy languished in recent months and the conflict with the Palestinians ground on.

And the Federal response, despite the Los Angeles riots and renewed evidence that the economy languishes, has been painfully anemic.

If the central bank is forced to print money then inflation begins to take off and the economy languishes.

Japan's economy has been languishing ever since the speculative economic bubble burst in the early 1990's, sending property prices crashing and bad loans soaring.