Word: frictionlessness
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...care for her sick mother. She had had an affair with a local fisherman, which produced Ava. After her mother died, Christa decided to stay. In her shingled house on a hill, surrounded by a tangle of spindly trees, she had started a new life, although not necessarily a frictionless one. What with family strains and frustrated romances, there were plenty of obvious suspects. Semen was found on Worthington's body, but it did not match any of them...
...Daschle told the group. "We're Americans. So let's do the right thing." On Sept. 21, when Bush walked down the aisle of the House to deliver an address to Congress, he stopped before Daschle, and the two men had a warm embrace. Suddenly Bush had become the frictionless leader of a united country; virtually no one was arguing with him now. A month later, the USA Patriot Act passed by a vote of 98 to 1 in the Senate...
Joel's trapped in a nightmare, but he got there by following a dream, a dream that's both tenderly hopeful and profoundly American: the second chance, the clean slate, the shot at redemption. There's another reason amnesia movies are everywhere: America is the land of amnesia, a frictionless meritocracy where anybody can start over at any time and work his way to the top, and every baseball team can show up on opening day with an undefeated record. It's not a mental problem; it's a national tradition. Compared with other nations, America itself is an amnesia...
...addition to this ongoing change in the world's economic geography?and in part because of it?Hong Kong has now become a victim of biology. The planet's most fertile breeding ground for infectious diseases is located in southern China, just across the increasingly frictionless border with Hong Kong. It's not surprising that due to the SARS virus, which probably jumped from pigs to humans in Guangdong province, Hong Kong is now faced with its most serious crisis since the 1967 riots. Can the city survive both a SARS pandemic and increased competition from a large number...
...most feared negotiators. Square-shouldered at 61, Malone, who has lifted weights since high school, is physically and intellectually intimidating, with a flypaper memory and an ability to perform complex calculations in his head. One person who has sat across the bargaining table from him says he has a "frictionless mind." Other negotiators complain that Malone has an annoying penchant for tweaking the deal to his advantage just as closure seems at hand. When he finally decided to sell his crown jewel to AT&T for $37 billion in stock in 1998, many competitors and partners alike wanted to wish...