Word: inertia
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...city itself has a further rationalization for inertia. Cambridge planners say with a certain amount of truth that they cannot plan re-development in the area to the east of Central Sq. until they know exactly where the proposed Inner Belt highway will go. This is a reasonable enough moratorium, since it involves state as well as local lethargy. However, because of a system of priorities voted in the city council, almost no urban renewal can take place in the whole of Cambridge until the inner belt goes through. Thus, while people in the east of Cambridge neglect their homes...
...would remember that some power is best not used at all-especially when the Federal Government is tempted to take on tasks adequately managed by the states and local communities. Another was whether events could really be moved far and fast, as energetic John Kennedy hoped. Faced with bureaucratic inertia, the unalterable decisions of predecessors and the provocation of crisis by men beyond his control, he was learning that a President, in Woodrow Wilson's phrase, barely retains the liberty "to be as big a man as he can." But in the vigor he brought to the early days...
Written, produced and directed by Norman Panama and Melvin Frank, Facts of Life inquires with wicked glee into the nature of the tie that binds men and women in holy wedlock. Is it love? No, it is inertia; most married people remain faithful to each other because it is just too much trouble to cheat...
...colonial saltbox overlaid with the bureaucratic gingerbread of the 19th and 20th centuries. The Legislature has patched up the holes in the Constitution with occasional adhesive tape and bobby pins, but still refuses to recondition its whole structure. Since the political atmosphere on the Hill fosters hesitancy and inertia, only a Constitutional Convention can accomplish complete and intelligent reform of the State's government...
What American foreign policy lacks, in the vast neutral areas, is consistent and coordinated planning. The absence of such perspective has often been pointed out, but inertia apparently has triumphed over enlightened self-interest. To the honest neutrals America appears divided, hypocritical, and mercenary; to the slightly more Machiavellian, it seems a sucker...