If only I had had the x-ray at the time and immobilised the shoulder properly by way of a sling, it would not have been so completely immobile more than four months later.
A country with a large group of strivers, but also decent pay and status for those who stay put and do basic jobs, is something that is becoming harder to achieve – both financially and psychologically – as the labour market and the education system increasingly divide into insiders (mobile professionals/graduates) and outsiders (immobile people without A-levels doing often basic jobs).
I fell to the sofa immobile.
But Britain remains a socially immobile place: a father's income determines that of his son more than anywhere else in the OECD, a rich-country club.
In a world with fairly immobile domestic prices, the exchange rate provides the only source of adjustment to shocks in financial markets.
And he seems to be dogged by bad luck his recent announcement that he is going to run, for example, was marred by his faux pas about American lives being "wasted" in Iraq.Why is the McCain express still immobile?
These two issues are often confused.The risk of tax competition is that it could spiral out of control, starting a "race to the bottom" as real economies cut tax rates on mobile capital and transfer the tax burden to labour and other immobile factors in order to keep up with lower-tax competitors.
But a deeper problem is that rising consumer and investment demand cannot be satisfied by an economy that is constrained by corruption, Soviet-era infrastructure and an inadequate and immobile workforce.Rising prices are now ordinary Russians' biggest concern, although they have not yet translated into protests.
Though by now immobile and uncommunicative, Lorenzo lived.
Gifted individuals who for centuries were held down within an immobile, caste-like hierarchy are now free to express their talents on a more or less level playing field.Inevitably, however, there is a darker side to the idea of meritocracy.
As Ms Poo points out, many of them are badly paid, get little or no time off and are vulnerable to injury because they have had no proper training for lifting immobile people.
