The wireless business, once rich in long-term contracts and other forms of inertia, is getting liberated.
Most people who don't cash out simply leave the money where it is when they change jobs, out of inertia.
Microsoft on the other hand dominates the market through a mix of inertia, scale and long-lasting relationships with businesses and resellers.
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However, "auto-enrollment wards off one kind of inertia and creates another, " says Dave Tolve, a partner specializing in benefits at Mercer, the consulting firm.
During that time, I gained a whole new understanding of the concept of inertia, and the challenge of getting an object at rest into motion.
There is, however, scope for new laws of gravity that affect light and heavy objects differently, or involve a modification of the concept of inertia.
Whatever those plans for the future that Zuckerberg referred to, they will need to overcome a lot of inertia to kick the stock price back into optimistic territory.
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The pitfall of inertia also applies to overlarge cash holdings.
It may push America into realising that the system has become an absurdity, the result of inertia, drift and bureaucratic empire-building rather than a cool assessment of the government's current needs.
Whether out of inertia or selfishness, whether out of fear or a simple lack of moral imagination, we so often spend our lives as if in a fog, accepting injustice, rationalizing inequity, tolerating the intolerable.
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The mayor of London has accused the government of inertia in putting off decisions on airport expansion in the south east of England until after the next election, and said the timetable sets a course for economic catastrophe.
One example: Vanguard built all of the 45 Finns used in the Barcelona Olympics. (The Finn is an Olympic sailboat Vanguard does not normally manufacture.) To make sure that different boats raced in exactly the same way, the Olympic Committee measured the moment of inertia on the boats.
And while most of the flak has been flying in the Welsh Government's direction over its alleged lack of a policy programme, the criticism of inertia has also been levelled at the Assembly itself, which sat for the first time on May 11 and has so far managed to constitute just two committees - Petitions and Subordinate Legislation.
The industry is not as competitive as it might seem, in part because of consumer inertia, in part because many of its terms and conditions are so hard to understand.
In any case, some of the inertia could be down to the decision-making quagmire that is all too common ahead of elections (due in India in 2014).
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Although Mr Blair doesn't quite say it, he is convinced that the far-reaching structural reforms that will deliver better schools and hospitals depend on his determination to confront the timidity of ministerial colleagues and the inertia of civil servants.
Sayles sketches the racial and economic agitations that leave the city in a state of tense inertia.
It is in education, allegedly Mr Blair's priority, that the results of this inertia have been starkest and most disappointing.
However, one conspicuous form of technological inertia has remained largely unaddressed.
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The mayor, who has advocated a new airport in the Thames Estuary, also said he felt the decision-making process was too slow and represented a "policy of utter inertia".
Intertwine these with the vagaries of competing ideas, with the accident-strewn adoption of a new technology and the inertia of the old, and Mr Aiken's gloomy prophecy seems entirely forgivable.
Officially announced Tuesday--and the subject of rather rampant speculation and rumor for more than a month--AMD is taking direct aim at the clock speeds of chips produced by nemesis Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) by trying to fight against years of marketing inertia.
Much of the speculation about the delayed introduction of a next generation Apple TV product has focused on the inertia of the cable companies and other content providers.
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But it faces two big challenges - the dominant position of JustGiving as the recognised brand for online fundraising, and the inertia of the charity sector.
The only things holding us back are the ever weakening inertia of habit, and tradition.
New methods must be easy to adopt or they won't overcome the inertia of old habits.
To top it off, dynamic events have the potential to kill the inertia of the game.
Most cycles are endogenous and easily explained by the inertia of a complex economy.
The inertia of banking and insurance customers is legendary, allowing banks and insurers to adopt new technology at a snail's pace.
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