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Negotiations to bring top Cuban scholars to study at the Center for International Affairs (CFIA) have broken down after two years of delays and "inertia" from the Cuban government, Jorge I. Dominguez, professor of Government, said yesterday...
Viguerie presents its recent successes as the return of the prodigal son. It is a "young, vital" movement that will lead America back to greatness, over and above the inertia of the established Republican Party. Liberals, he says, are very nearly traitors. "It is not conservatives but liberals who oppose progress, who want to take us back to a past era of few automobiles, undeveloped land, insufficient energy, a gray gloomy world, in which there is always less and less for more and more." Conspiring against the American people are Big Business, Big Media, Big Labor, and Big Government. Everyone...
...test sponsored by the British government found it takes about a month to convert to the new system. Most enjoyed it. "Your fingers don't ache," said Julie Stevens, 18, who makes her living copying complex patent applications. The Maltron keyboard's main problem is simple entrenched inertia. Manufacturers all make the QWERTY, and millions of typists around the world know it. So nobody, so far, seems inclined to retool-or become obsolete, even for a month...
...universal failure to act at the heart of the play. These are Chekhov's weariest and most resigned characters, and they are dying before our eyes. Watching them it is easy to understand why indolence is such an insidious and devastating sin, for it is this combination of inertia, inactivity and self-delusion, along with the larger failing of society and its moral codes, that quietly but firmly crushes the spirit of most of the characters. And much of this is revealed through monologues, often masquerading as dialogue, through intimate confessions and tiny confrontations that only hint at the inner...
Iran's military inertia is the result of an army desperately short on manpower, spare parts and ammunition. A whole layer of professional commanders, eliminated by Khomeini's revolution, is sorely missed. Moreover, say military analysts, the Iranians consistently squander what supplies they have. Notes Philippe Rondot, a French Middle East expert: "They shoot at everything, firing as many missiles and bullets as they have. It's like a military orgy...