Word: inertia
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...College of Liberal Arts and the School of Law, however, have discovered just how stubborn Mississippi inertia can be. It was towards the faculty in these two schools that the attacks of 1959 were directed, and it has been the professors of these schools who first began to "pick up the pieces" after the riots and educate the student body to the could facts of desegregation and the judicial process in America...
...supported this brand of separatism because of what he called "failures" of current integration movements. These touch "only twenty per cent" of the Negro community, and the apparent progress represented by, for example, desegregation in public buildings does nothing to change the American's basic attitude toward integration. "Individual inertia remains," Butler said, "in spite of acceptance of the hypothesis and legality of integration...
...practical choice," he went on, "is not between a tax-cut deficit and a budget surplus. It is between two kinds of deficits-a chronic deficit of inertia, as the unwanted result of inadequate revenues and a restricted economy, or a temporary deficit of transition, resulting from a tax cut designed to boost the economy. The first type of deficit is a sign of waste and weakness; the second reflects an investment in the future...
Sensing the Frenchman's mounting impatience with inconvenience and inertia, Gaullists have ambitious schemes for rural development ("gardening the national territory"), urban improvement, school construction to redeem what one minister calls "our terrible rendezvous with youth." The nation's administrative structure, which has wheezed along with little change since Napoleon's time, will be modernized. Gaullist technicians are already planning to overhaul Paris. Though 18% of the entire population is concentrated in the capital and growing by 100,000 a year, officialdom seems more concerned with preserving old houses than providing new ones. Says one minister...
...something close to divine inspiration. The will to try, and divine inspiration, like the operational viewpoint, are unsocial virtues. Hence, while we cannot propose our pious wish as the necessary conclusion to all that precedes, we can at least let it stand. It is one alternative to the intellectual inertia that threatens to keep the undergraduate scientist and humanist in discrete worlds...