Word: inertia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...government could be decentralized, as in West Germany. But as T.S. Eliot once wrote, "Between the idea/ And the reality,/ Between the motion/ And the act/ Falls the Shadow." In Mexico City, there is the shadow of ideology, both religious and secular, the shadow of corruption, the shadow of inertia-and always the problems growing faster than the solutions...
...will mutate next fall into a new show, Three's a Crowd, in which Star John Ritter acquires a new girlfriend with a cantankerous father. Only The Jeffersons (ten seasons on the air) and Alice (eight seasons) remain, and they seem to be running on sheer inertia...
...Racism" is a facile, loaded term. It looms as a giant, foreboding presence just beyond all the self-affirmation of ethnic pride and encompasses so many shades of though and action as to make it almost meaningless. Is it conscious, a product of ignorance, or merely part of the inertia of tradition? The distinctions are important, especially in Boston...
...Pragmatically, [change will be difficult because] the economic inertia and enormous success of HMS will carry the day. But only time will tell," he said
Deng's regime has done little to eliminate corruption, repression or inertia, and has in fact given rise to some new problems. The swelling of riches in a few areas has made for inequity and envy. The open door has admitted a host of unhealthy and unwanted foreign influences. Many diehard Maoists, still entrenched in the bureaucracy or established in the military, have managed to resist, and even reverse, the new direction. Though China has, at last count, 1.1 billion people, its G.N.P. is less than half that of France (pop. 55 million). Above all, in its attempt to balance...