Word: inertia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...daughter. "For 25 years I have rarely appeared with my mom. This April I marched with her because of the abortion issue," says Friedan, who has organized a local chapter of Physicians for Choice. The abortion issue has helped galvanize college-age women -- and men -- out of their political inertia. Alexandra Stanton, 20, took a year's leave from Cornell to launch Students Organizing Students, an activist group devoted to protecting reproductive rights. SOS has already launched chapters on 100 college campuses. Says NOW president Molly Yard: "Abortion has strengthened our abilities to campaign on many issues...
...look at that and I think, 'That's all behind us,'" Wise says. "we already know a lot someone else would have to figure out. That's the value of inertia...
...issue on which Harvard's far-flung activist communities can unite: the minority communities, the feminist community and activists from other liberal and progressive groups should come together to forge a coalition around this issue. And then they should figure out the best way to make the inertia-laden people up top feel uncomfortable...
...Verba Committee's policy recommendations may have fallen victim to Harvard's bureacratic inertia, but it's goals need...
Spence's plan is designed to increase thechances junior professors have at internalpromotion to tenure, but he says that Harvard hasenough institutional inertia that it will probablytake another five years before his reforms beginto have a noticeable effect...