Word: inertia
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...such as studying to become a doctor or engineer, and away from the frivolity of playing outdoors. Another says facilities are inadequate and the country lacks a nationwide professional league in any sport. A third avers that athletics simply aren't in the Indian genes. Whatever the reason, this inertia is apparently here to stay...
Richard Kerry retired from the foreign service in 1962, frustrated by the inertia he encountered there and resentful at not being listened to and appreciated to the degree he thought he deserved. "He obviously enjoyed the work at some level, being involved in policy and the travel and so on," Cam says of his father. "But I think ultimately he was frustrated by the bureaucracy and by the policies." He had parted ways with President Eisenhower and his men, who he thought saw things in black and white--the godless communists against everyone else. Richard rejected the notion that...
...detailing the heroics of Secret Service Agent Brass Bancroft. In Secret Service of the Air, he foils an alien-smuggling racket and, during a fight, executes a smooth backflip over a cantina table. Murder in the Air earned some later camp luster with its secret weapon, the Inertia Protector, which is able to destroy hostile bombs aimed at the U.S.--a primitive forerunner of President Reagan's Star Wars plan...
Edwards’ biggest initial challenge may be overcoming student inertia, and she hopes to use the office to marshal Harvard’s alumni and internationally oriented faculty and departments to make studying, interning and working abroad easier...
...Prince, it's imperative that retrials like Chamblain's don't become "a comedy of justice to whitewash crimes." Most Haitians who wanted Aristide gone now hope to reinstate the army in Haiti - an idea U.S. officials condemn. But it's just one more example of a retro-inertia that seems to have gripped Haiti's new ruling establishment. As he was being fingerprinted last month, Chamblain declared that he turned himself in because "I have decided to give Haiti a chance." After 200 years of utter failure, Haiti needs a chance to free itself of medieval governance...