Word: inertia
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...Fourth--Open up a new channel for peaceful discussion and initiate at least a new approach to the many difficult problems that must be solved . . . if the world is to shake off the inertia imposed by fear and make progress toward peace...
...hurt Harvard has suffered is because of inertia in the face of the obvious...
...representative person, the attitude of mind he conveys is decidedly widespread throughout Western Europe. This attitude of mind is usually described as neutralism. It derives from a mixture of wishful thinking, impatience with American diplomatic gaucherie and envy of America's present wealth and power, and sheer inertia following upon four decades of tumultuous upheaval...
...biggest issue in the cold war is Germany-whether to rearm it, how to unite it. For a month or more, Western diplomacy had been becalmed by inertia and irresolution, while the loosening lines of Soviet control in the East offered opportunity and threat. Last week the West stirred, and with some success...
...Inertia in the Mass. The typical civil servant will not deliberately defy or sabotage clear orders from above. But, in the complexity of modern government, clear, sensemaking orders cannot be written from above without willing cooperation below. In the present state of the U.S. Government, the wafer-thin layer of political appointees at the top has great difficulty swinging the massive organization beneath. A Republican appointee with considerable experience in business and Government administration describes the inertia that faces many an Eisenhower executive: "He wants to do something that in business he would handle by a phone call...