Word: inertia
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Just as impressive is the timing—at a place with 369 years of inertia, the final two dining hall renovations went on according to schedule and without a hitch. In just 10 short summer weeks, Mather and Dunster received their facelifts, and almost nobody besides a few tutors and masters seemed to notice—at least until their waffles emerged emblazoned with the Harvard’s “VERITAS” crest...
...first day. The interactive spiral had begun. I corrected my English, clarified my ideas, shortened my sentences, and posted new chunks of writing every three hours or so, reading through countless e-mails in the intervals and responding to them both directly and on the website. Compared to the inertia of writing the old way- with plenty of time to meet one?s deadlines, precious little awareness of one?s readers, and no easy way to offer second thoughts after one?s first thoughts reached the page-the momentum of this new process was exhilarating...
There are two kinds of courage in Table Money. Owney's is physical, as he displayed in Viet Nam by winning a Congressional Medal of Honor. Dolores proves her valor by overcoming generations of inertia and fatalism. She does it by demonstrating that behind the male swagger there is usually an unsteady little boy in need of a firm maternal hand. When a neighborhood Rambo threatens to shoot at police from his window, Dolores arms herself with a basket of wet wash and gets him to help her hang it: "She held her hand out and Ralphie gave...
Summers, Gray seemed to believe, was the antidote to Rudenstine’s inertia. And “no doubt she sees the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as a foil to Larry’s bold leadership,” the former overseer said...
...change. Currently, the scale used to judge professors and Teaching Fellows ranges from 1-5, a far too limited span considering that students rarely give professors ones or twos. An extended scale from 1-7 would better enable students to distinguish between excellent and mediocre instructors. Free from the inertia of printing costs and their associated logistics, we expect that CUE evaluations will improve at an accelerated rate...