Inevitably, people are comparing the incident with the explosion on the Kursk submarine two years ago which took a similar toll, with official bungling and foot-dragging partly to blame.As Russians held a day of mourning for the helicopter victims on August 22nd, they looked back on a grim week.
Huh? Big projects drag on, partly because of excessive regulations, lawsuits and union rules.
Congo is the most lethal conflict since World War II, costing about five million lives since 1998, and it has dragged on partly because journalists haven't done a better job propelling it onto the international agenda.
Then there's the insensitive dragging her partly out the door of the elevator, leaving her face down in a heap while her other shoe fell off.
If the unfolding of what is, despite the bookending earthquakes, essentially a domestic chamber drama starts to drag, that's partly because "Aftershock" (like a lot of other big-budget contemporary Chinese films) seems to feel a duty: to hold within itself, on a symbolic level, the horrors and triumphs of the last four decades of Chinese history, from Cultural Revolution to economic miracle.
Hensher also succeeds where Hollinghurst's most recent novel The Stranger's Child faltered, partly in writing a multifocus, genealogical novel that doesn't drag its feet, and partly in his approach to a certain character type.
The European probe has dragged on for years, partly because Google's competitors have objected to the company's proposals for settlements, which included ideas like letting competitors pay to have their results shown alongside Google's own.
So as the majority leader, Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, struggled to muster 60 votes to advance the bill, Republicans insisted on being able to offer amendments intended partly to drag out the pain for Democrats.
But the experience didn't go well for him, partly because Google's approval process dragged on for months, and partly because the company didn't allow developers to charge fees for their apps or run advertising on them.
The massive support for John Sergeant, despite his dragging feet, was at least partly an expression of the audience's anger at the fakery scandals in TV.
