Word: inertia
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...bitterest enemies do not accuse him of the despotism for which the colonials always suspected George III's governors; and yet the Governor's Council remains, obstructing the chief executive, duplicating other posts and clogging bureaucratic channels. The counties, too, stayed on unchanged after the Revolution, and only inertia perpetuates their costly and relatively useless existence. Yet not since 1917 has a Constitutional Convention studied these antiques thoroughly...
...proper and most responsible body to make reforms. Still, the 13 amendments passed by the General Court since 1919 have been piecemeal revision, and the major ones that have gotten by one session, for instance the 4-year gubernatorial term, have perished the following year. Political interest and inertia make the Legislature a dubious source of initiative for reform...
Back at Hyde Park, a more insidious and possibly more dangerous stage of the battle begins: the struggle with his dominating, possessive mother (Ann Shoemaker), who personifies and marshals all the self-indulgence and inertia in his soul as she smothers him with affection, murmuring soothingly over and over that he must rest, that he must forget about politics, that he should live out his life at Hyde Park. In a tremendous confrontation, the hero slays the dragon and thenceforth is able to call his soul his own. In the final sequence, crutch-borne but triumphant, he hobbles...
Pete Quesada moved too fast to get caught. The biggest barrier to positive federal control of aviation, he found, was bureaucratic inertia, in which "the regulator was regulating to meet the needs of the regulated, and without due regard to the needs of the public." He solved that with a personnel shakedown and then began his massive attack. In quick time, Quesada...
...What "inertia and apathy" portend for the city-and for the whole nation-was summed up last week by the Ford Foundation's President Henry T. Heald, onetime (1952-56) chancellor of New York University, in an angry speech before New York City's United Parents Associations. "What happens in the nation's largest city makes its impact throughout the country. Educational neglect means aggravation of the conditions leading to irresponsibility and lawlessness among our youth, an increasing economic burden for social welfare, the perpetuation of islands of squalor amidst shining centers of commerce and culture...