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...introduced a Sean John Wheels line. The one- and three-piece precision-forged aluminum rims are custom-made for sport trucks, high-end SUVS and American and German luxury cars. In nine signature designs, including elegant six-spoke and intricate 18-spoke versions, they are built to have low inertia for improved acceleration and increased air flow to help cooling and reduce lift and drag...
This odd legal standoff in the all-important U.S. market shows little sign of ending, as neither Republican efforts to stiffen the laws nor Democratic efforts to loosen them are getting anywhere in Congress. In the face of such inertia, gaming firms are getting brazen. One British outfit, Sportingbet, runs ads on ESPN for its Sportsbook.com site and recently put up a huge billboard in New York City's Times Square featuring a pretty model and the slogan EVERYBODY BETS. PartyGaming CEO Segal says big American media groups seem less reluctant to air gaming ads than they were...
...strictly defined circumstances, they have themselves had to be defended at various times by British, Dutch and Australian troops.) At a conference in Tokyo sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington think tank, just a day before the Futenma agreement, Lawless stunned his audience by blasting the inertia, complacency and inadequacy of Japan's armed forces. Rather than offering the usual congratulations for support in Iraq and the Indian Ocean, Lawless called Japan's military initiatives over the years "quite modest." Japan's defense planning, Lawless said, was "episodic rather than systemic ... reactive rather than proactive." Lest there...
Harvard, if only for the sake of inertia, was chosen second. With big losses, a return to the top will be hard, but Dartmouth—the next strongest team—was hit just as hard and so there is no reason to doubt that the Crimson has a good shot to be in the top two in the ECAC when all is said and done...
...drive is difficult to predict. Grow up in a rich family, and you can inherit either the tools to achieve (think both Presidents Bush) or the indolence of the aristocrat. Grow up poor, and you can come away with either the motivation to strive (think Bill Clinton) or the inertia of the hopeless. On the whole, studies suggest it's the upper middle class that produces the greatest proportion of ambitious people--mostly because it also produces the greatest proportion of anxious people...