Word: inertias
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...vision to see that things can be done better, a belief in principle, the conviction that comes with confidence in the correctness and value of what one is doing, and a strength of spirit that overcomes the inertia of long-established custom--these are ingredients without which the work cannot be accomplished. While genius is somes a factor, the tales in this issue tell of doggedness, common sense and the simple wish to help the sick or injured...
...chases shown in movies, an auto often catapults into the air as it goes over a hill, when, for a moment, inertia overcomes gravity. Is it possible the tragic accident in Paris involved the same principle? If the speeding Mercedes became airborne, a slight turn of the steering wheel, which should have been sufficient to negotiate a curve on the roadway, would have been ineffective. Perhaps the accident had more to do with physics than with alcohol. MERRICK LOCKWOOD Dhaka...
...time such a high-powered committee claims to have spent lots of time on something like this, they have a lot of inertia behind them," said Professor of Chinese History Peter K. Bol, who sits on the Council...
Antarctica also plays tricks with time and space. The vast, treeless continent conveys the awesome inertia of a place where motion is noticeable only on a geological time scale, as though the extreme cold flowing out from the polar plateau has slowed the pulse of life itself. On the ice sheets, ice streams 50 miles wide--glaciers within a glacier, in effect--look like frozen rapids when seen from space. Only if time-lapse photography could collapse many hundreds of years would the continent look alive as the ice flowed and cracked, redistributing its mass according to the laws governing...
...that the Coop can or will turn a profit. The store's business "strategy" is, of course, the fault of its managers. But any such entrenched bureaucrats with zero financial incentive to improve performance would likely do the same thing that the Coop does: maintain a not-for-profit inertia...