Word: inertia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...method of electing regional officers, which is now by caucus at the national convention in the summer. Two problems arise: voters seldom know candidates' qualifications, and officers elected in the summer must be confirmed by a vote of the regional conference in the Fall. This time-lag leads to inertia on the part of new officers until their "second election." A nominating committee that would acquaint itself with qualifications of potential candidates before the convention, and an amendment to the constitution making the summer election final would insure the best possible officers for regional NSA and speed them on their...
...trouble, apparently, was threefold: 1) inadequate equipment and research; 2) failure to keep up with new meteorological techniques abroad; 3) scientific inertia at home. Congress, which keeps the U.S. Weather Bureau on a starvation allowance, was guilty on the first count. But the official weatherman had to take some of the blame...
...professional supporters of states' rights, especially in the South, which needs aid most. Also, four members of the Commission have dissented from the majority which condemned the paralyzing policy of racial segregation in southern colleges. Added to these stumbling-blocks of blind localism and prejudice, is the general inertia over education of the kind which has complacently allowed teachers' salaries to remain at a disgraceful level...
...situation is the worst it has been since October 1944 when the Germans left. The Greek Government, the high command, the Army and the people are carrying out a sort of mass psychological "sitdown strike"; the Communist-led guerrillas are not in the grip of this self-induced inertia...
...that the austere life does not lead to contentment. The English, Scotch and Welsh expressed dissatisfaction not so much with the socialist doctrine of the Labor Party as with a host of little unpleasantries that have been digging them ever deeper lately. The cut in the food ration, housing inertia, a ban on travel, and end of pleasure driving aided the Conservatives in turning out a vote fifty-six percent greater than last year but composed mostly of those who only hurl their ballots when they perceive what they deem the source of their discontent...