Word: autopilot
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...Otherwise, you are on autopilot," says Marlatt. "The urge is driving you. So take a breathing space...
...single official - the Treasury Secretary, or someone else - be appointed to oversee the process. But nobody's volunteering for that job. Officials at Treasury and the Federal Reserve, already overburdened with the banking bailout, aren't interested. And the rest of the Bush administration seems to be running on autopilot for the final weeks of its existence...
...facing in Iraq and Afghanistan, rather than on the hypothetical conventional wars for which it would prefer to plan - and for which it continues to order up costly weapons. (But continuity would also keep Pentagon spending, already at World War II levels, climbing into the stratosphere on autopilot...
...watch, the ship sailed smoothly, and the next year it didn’t,” said Eric M. Reifschneider, another of Obama’s Law Review colleagues. “[The Law Review] wasn’t just something you could leave on autopilot...
...Nearly every song on the album seems to obey a sort of invisible rock template, a self-conscious mechanism that mindlessly plugs in choruses, verses, hooks and solos, but never seems to be aware of what makes any of those things work together. The album plods along on autopilot for six straight tracks of virtually indistinguishable twin-guitar artillery, with doses of horn flourish applied intermittently in a futile attempt to enliven the record’s blandness. “The Switch and the Spur,” “Hold...