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Consequently Europe is left with a constitutional proposal nearly immune to amendment (see article 443) that dooms the Union to the inertia of trade liberalization, and to economic muscle without any special political merit. Worst of all, the proposal is so hopelessly lengthy and technical that it is incapable of stimulating the least enthusiasm among European citizens. On February 20, 77 percent of Spaniards approved the treaty by referendum, but the turnout, at 42 percent, was the lowest of any national vote since the death of Franco...
...earthquake, his visits to disaster areas have tapered off, adding to the image of government aloofness. The absence of strong crisis management has led to a feeling that De la Madrid's government is adrift. Says a Western diplomat in Mexico City: "The government seems to be gripped by inertia...
...publishing industry. Publishers can cooperate with promising and worthy ventures such as that of Harvard and Google, responsibly protecting their own interests while embracing the power of the new digital age. Alternatively, they can continue to needlessly obstruct scholarly progress, frustrating the academic world and thrusting it into developmental inertia...
...with most conundrums in technology law, there is no easy answer. AOL has no incentive to change their terms of service to something friendlier because they possess an enormous amount of inertia that makes it unlikely their users will switch away from their product. Even if users are sufficiently disgruntled to the point that they would do so if they knew this clause was present, we’ve already established that most users almost certainly haven’t read the terms of service to begin with. It’s possible to encrypt AIM conversations so that...
...costs of action are a tiny fraction of the costs of inaction. And yet we must carry out these tasks in a context of global inertia, proclivities to war and prejudice, and understandable skepticism around the world that this time can be different from the past. Here are nine steps to the goal...