Word: inertia
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...they all needed? To some degree, the spy race is self-perpetuating: when your adversary has spies trying to gather information, you need more spies to counter them. "It's very much the inertia of the cold war," says a former intelligence officer. On the other hand, it would be naive to believe spying is merely a game of one-upmanship. The world is still a dangerous place--as anyone within range of North Korea's missiles or Osama bin Laden's terrorists knows...
...swept up in the thesis-crunch of February and March, carried away by the bacchanalian reprieve of April and May, and found myself nodding in agreement with the insurgent nostalgia of Senior Week and Graduation. It is hard to describe the whole experience; words fail to capture the emotive inertia that propels the last few months, here. It is something akin to the closing minute of the Beatles' song, "A Day in the Life." Over the course of a short time, so many moments conspire in a melody that rises to a fever pitch until that final instant when...
Vladimir Putin, a former KGB agent and Russia's President, is a St. Petersburg native. He made his name as one of the energetic reformers who gave the city a rolling start as communism collapsed. But these days that momentum is gone, replaced by the languid inertia of drink, drugs and sex. Putin is desperate to change his country. The kids in these photos are desperate to change their lives. That should be a recipe for hope, but in this lawless, rotting city, it has become a prescription for despair...
...Brazil isn't just a country, it's really its own world, with its own language (Portuguese), music and culture; it's not as eagerly derivative as some other countries. There are more than 150 million people living here, so they've got plenty of their own cultural inertia...
Local news directors and reporters need to overcome their inertia rather quickly if they want their newscasts to survive. In this age of the Internet, local television stations have to compete as fiercely as ever for an audience, and Boston's visually stimulating, melodramatic newscasts are not drawing viewers in but instead are leading even the most loyal ones away...