Word: inertia
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...ticket. To her dismay, she discovers that he is impotent. "Your advertising is just dandy," sneers Bonnie, after their first no-love session. "Folks'd never guess you don't have a thing to sell." Yet Clyde does have a salable commodity: movement in a time of inertia, elation in the midst of depression...
...hundred visions and revisions"? Is there time for one to concentrate only on alleviating individual suffering, when American crises as great as the War or the racial situation exist? Perhaps the time has come when the liberal must recognize his inability to overcome the system's basic inertia and to effect real change without becoming a radical? For Afro and SDS, that time has come...
Yale's main difficulty in passing the new grading system, was overcoming inertia. The Courses of Study Committee took two years before making its unanimous recommendation, and then only a third of the faculty turned up to vote on it. The supporters, including the dean of the Yale Graduate School, won by a 10-1 ratio. The Committee on Educational Policy at Harvard should overcome the similar faculty inertia here and press for action on the fourth-course pass-fail and the language requirement...
...were raised from $6,000 to $16,000 last year), research staffs and offices of their own. In Illinois, where lawmakers use corridors as offices, a new $18 million legislative office building will soon be built. But improvements come slowly. State governments are more often characterized by "stagnation and inertia," says the C.E.D. report, than by drive and initiative. Unless they are "renovated in far-reaching ways," it concludes, "their policy and functional roles will wither away...
This procedure gives the Administration an advantage which it normally does not have in its dealings with Congress on the District. For once, Congressional inertia will be its ally rather than its antagonist. In light of past Congressional-D.C. relations, inertia can be a powerful ally...