Word: inertia
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...when there is a will to get the Government out of business, it can unquestionably be done. To do so, the new Administration will have to overcome all the resistance, obstruction, delay and evasion of the bureaucrat-at-bay. It will have to hack through the plausible defenses which inertia and tradition have accumulated over decades. But the further it gets into the problem, the sooner it will learn that the only way to stop Government in business is to stop...
Golden Moment. His own landing at Inchon in Sept. 1950, said MacArthur, changed pessimism to optimism: "This was the golden moment to translate military victory to a politically advantageous peace . . . The inertia of our diplomacy failed utterly to utilize the victory of Inchon and subsequent destruction of the North Korean armies as the basis for swift and dynamic political action to restore peace and unity to Korea...
Already the Eisenhower team could sense that its first big job would be to overcome the inertia-both planned & unplanned-of the long Democratic era. Not until the new Republican administration began exploring the labyrinthine corridors of Washington, after January 20, would it know the true state of its inheritance...
...Acheson had said that the Foreign Service should ignore the mandate for a change in administration, and-by identifying itself closely with Acheson's own difficulties-retain a kind of blood brotherhood loyalty to the Truman-Acheson policies. This presented the Eisenhower Administration with still another problem of inertia to overcome...
While its semi-official status and inertia helped in the triumph, the real here for the CRIMSON in the Journal battle was Arthur Hopkins. From 1929 right up to the present, linotyper Art has been the her of the nightly "Battle of the Bilge." It was he who took over when the green undergraduates left off in 1934 and he who saved the day for the Crime again during World War II. Few remember that his name was put at the top of the masthead as President one issue in 1935, but no Crimed will ever forget...