Word: inertia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...practical choice," he went on, "is not between a tax-cut deficit and a budget surplus. It is between two kinds of deficits-a chronic deficit of inertia, as the unwanted result of inadequate revenues and a restricted economy, or a temporary deficit of transition, resulting from a tax cut designed to boost the economy. The first type of deficit is a sign of waste and weakness; the second reflects an investment in the future...
Sensing the Frenchman's mounting impatience with inconvenience and inertia, Gaullists have ambitious schemes for rural development ("gardening the national territory"), urban improvement, school construction to redeem what one minister calls "our terrible rendezvous with youth." The nation's administrative structure, which has wheezed along with little change since Napoleon's time, will be modernized. Gaullist technicians are already planning to overhaul Paris. Though 18% of the entire population is concentrated in the capital and growing by 100,000 a year, officialdom seems more concerned with preserving old houses than providing new ones. Says one minister...
...something close to divine inspiration. The will to try, and divine inspiration, like the operational viewpoint, are unsocial virtues. Hence, while we cannot propose our pious wish as the necessary conclusion to all that precedes, we can at least let it stand. It is one alternative to the intellectual inertia that threatens to keep the undergraduate scientist and humanist in discrete worlds...
Even if off-campus living generally permitted in the senior year, inertia would probably keep a great many of the 23 per cent rooted where they are. When faced with the obligations of finding and maintaining campus residence, the attractiveness of the life diminishes...
Outside his own specialty, Dr. Mead criticizes doctors for continuing to impose "prolonged inertia" on patients with an arterial shutdown in a leg, and on victims of rheumatic fever. Strenuous athletics, he notes, are even recommended for patients with active tuberculosis, provided they are also getting drug treatment. Excessive rest, he concludes, is the same fraudulent fad it always...