Word: inertia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...expression "affirmative action" to mean preferential treatment for disadvantaged groups....We take affirmative action to mean conscientious effort to counteract passive as well as active discrimination....Affirmative action involves vigorous effort to search beyond traditional networks; to broaden traditional definitions of field, approach or criteria; and to resist the inertia that works to ensure relative homogeneity among faculty and students...
...being different, so maybe it was easier for us to do odd things and take more chances. I think the grind of doing a show every night makes you more inclined to say "Well, we did that once before, we can do it again." A certain kind of inertia takes over. But I think what has come over the years is a more consistent spirit. We have more confidence now in what we do. Whereas before it was like rolling a hand grenade into a hen house -- you just waited to see where the feathers would land. You know, that...
...instead what seems to be at issue is a problem of inertia...
...nude, rescued from mere allusiveness by the vehement drawing of shadow that gives Kossoff's work its tonal framework. Its solidity is relieved, almost involuntarily, by the whipping of skeins of pigment fallen directly from the brush, which work as a form of counterdrawing, lifting the thick surfaces from inertia...
...have to listen to presidential candidates to realize that the American family is the national religion. It is a religion based on a noble fantasy: the dream of blood belonging. Some families stay together through love, or through propriety or inertia. All are bound by intimately shared joy and pain, by a need to keep the dream of personal immortality alive for just one more generation. Every parent must believe he will be born again in the new, improved image of his child...