Word: inertia
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...anywhere on campus, you see and appreciate that renewable energy can and does work reliably and unobtrusively. The solar panels on the Cabot Science Library and the planned wind turbines on William James Hall are a miniscule step in that direction. I hope that both projects will shatter the inertia, ignorance, and general apathy surrounding efficient, clean energy on campus...
...compelling: it costs a lot of money to acquire a customer and relatively little to keep them if they get mad - some free minutes or a couple of bucks off the bill will usually do the trick. The companies know that there's a a certain amount of inertia that keeps us from moving, even if the service is lousy. (Think about the last time you switched banks...
...Faust must use a light touch. If Summers’ resignation showed anything, it is that a University cannot be governed by fiat. Despite the office’s prestige, the president of Harvard has extremely limited means with which to reform the University and combat its staggering institutional inertia. Everyone must feel invested in the institution’s common goals, and nobody can feel talked down to. Faust must thus walk a tightrope, listening to all parties intently and building consensus so that things get done while not becoming so bogged down in meetings and ego-stroking that...
...uninspiring, with the catchall categories of the Core dressed up in lofty rhetoric. What ought to have been an incisive, practical new plan devolved into another exercise in esoterica. In the end, general education is a case study in the frustrating nature of Harvard politics, characterized by institutional inertia and politically correct banality...
...something like Czechoslovakia's "velvet revolution," street demonstrations fueled by an overwhelming wave of people power. But no matter how great his popularity, even Yeltsin will be hard put to mobilize the Russian masses in large enough numbers. They are mostly anti-Gorbachev and antigovernment, but their political inertia has been ingrained over centuries. Already their initial excitement and interest in the open politics of Gorbachev's demokratizatsiya have given way to apathy, cynicism and exhaustion...