Word: inertia
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...Ghose of the trade group America's Health Insurance Plans says many have taken note of medical outsourcing but are scared off by the regulatory and legal uncertainties. Aaditya Mattoo, a World Bank economist who has published a study on the potential of medical outsourcing, suspects that pure institutional inertia has something to do with the lack of interest...
...bombers and aircraft carriers. However clean his logic, getting the generals to give up their gadgets was turning out to be much dirtier work. "This is a very large organization," says General Richard Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, "and as with any ship, there's a lot of inertia that won't allow you to turn it 10 degrees. You need energetic people to make that happen." But one man was no match for the nation's four military services. Rumsfeld found he could not make a move without its being leaked to the newspapers, and pretty soon...
Whether it’s in our relationships, our career paths, our course selections, or our studying and partying habits, many of us suffer from blind inertia, rarely questioning the path we’ve chosen. But it’s important, I think, to challenge that inertia before it’s too late: It’s for this reason, rather than for any athletic benefit, I swear, that I’m happy to participate in intramurals, even attend Senior Bar. It’s why I feel completely justified telling my friends to remain circumspect about...
...anything quite like the St. Louis Police Department. But Harvard does have one thing in common with the Gateway City: both Harvard and St. Louis love tradition. St. Louis expresses its love for tradition by continuing with political institutions and folkways long after their proper expiration date. Mired in inertia, Harvard is conservative in everything from its housing policies to its investment strategies to its student body’s simultaneous love of liberalism and objection to all things radical.Of course, Harvard students tend to favor social change far more than the voters of Missouri. But Harvard students have...
...HRCF. “Students from nearly every group,” Bryant says, “are meeting every night to pray together.” People in HRCF and the CSA alike express a desire to work more closely together. Still, it remains to be seen if inertia will keep the groups apart, or if Harvard’s Christians will be one body before long...