According to Einstein, the force of gravity keeping your feet on the ground is fundamentally identical to the force slamming your body forward when you hit the brakes on the highway or take a sudden sharp turn.

FORBES: Physicists Seek A Divorce: Prying Gravity ... From Inertia

Stock investors took their cue and began buying on the hope that the Fed will hit the brakes on its series of 17 consecutive interest-rate increases.

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Fiat has been suffering from a decision taken in the midst of the financial crisis: to hit the brakes on its investment in developing new cars.

ECONOMIST: Luxury cars are speeding ahead; lesser brands are stalled

Carrefour hit the brakes on a costly revamp of the French retail giant's biggest stores in the wake of a drop in profit for 2011, underscoring the challenges the new chief executive will face when he starts later this year.

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Driving in on the Bruins net on a 2-on-0 break, Vanek hit the brakes at the top of the crease and waited for Tuukka Rask to commit before shoveling the puck in over the fallen goalie to make it 6-4.

WSJ: Austrian homecoming did wonders for Sabres' Vanek

The warden at the wheel hit his brakes, trying to make a U-turn on the narrow pine-lined road.

CNN: Dorner manhunt: A car chase, a gunfight and a fiery cabin

Did you know, that if you're going 100 mph, directly at a very, very thick, reinforced concrete wall, and you speed up, so you're accelerating right when you hit the wall that the accident you have is going to be much worse than if you'd jammed on the brakes as soon as you saw the wall at the end of the street?

CNN: Commentary: Is Obama skidding or crashing?