Word: inertia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet policymaking has grown rife with "conservative sentiments, inertia, a tendency to brush aside everything that does not fit into conventional patterns, and an unwillingness to come to grips with outstanding socioeconomic problems...
...interest of the community. Students and alumni should have more than a consumer's or a beneficiary's voice in Harvard's affair and they should demand a primary role in formulating the ideals that govern it. Instead of worshipping the abstract principle of institutional grandeur and practicing institutional inertia, Harvard's administration might recognize that its legitimate authority derives from the community it serves. President...
...Saturday flew off to Palm Springs, Calif., for a week's vacation, but in the Oval Office the President kept a low profile. Perhaps the holidays would quell the furor over the Iran arms scandal, if only temporarily. But Iranscam offered only more grim tidings: continued inertia and infighting at the White House, increased squabbling between the Administration and Capitol Hill over how to clear up the mess, questions about the health of CIA Director William Casey and the emotional stability of Lieut. Colonel Oliver North, and a wave of Yuletide firings at the National Security Council. While the scandal...
...hope the silence at last weekend's council meeting was merely a sign of bureaucratic inertia. At issue is whether the council is anything more than a club that plays bureaucratic games and dispenses grants to students groups. Our criticism is motivated by the belief that it can and should be more. If council members are at all concerned about maintaining their credibility as the legitimate representatives of the entire student body, they will move as quickly as possible to distance themselves from Eisert's decision...
...tied into the institutional inertia" which prevents change, says Damon A. Silvers '86, a prominent campus activst. Silvers adds that personally Bok is probably a "decent guy" with "pretty liberal views," but his legal training prevents him from carrying these positions into...