Word: inertia
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Barcelona did not develop smoothly. It has had three convulsive spasms of rebuilding and self-renewal, with long stretches of inertia in between. The most recent one began in the late 1970s and has been going on for the past 10 years under Barcelona's socialist Mayor Maragall: the refashioning and sprucing up of the city, from its infrastructure -- sewers, ring roads -- to the restoration of its huge deposit of historic buildings, most of which had decayed badly during the Franco years, through to new works such as the refurbished waterfront, the Olympic Village and the magnificent covered stadium...
Utility companies don't seem to bother Aaron, but needless waste does. "Solar heating is just so obvious. We know how to build a home that consumes less energy, but it is so hard to change the system. You are fighting against this big inertia of contractors who keep on building houses they way they have been building them since World...
...will be harder to beat if Buchanan keeps knocking the President off balance. Teeter likes to say that Americans "understand that George Bush is not about to let the wheels come off." If voters come to feel that Bush's stability is just another word for inertia, anything could happen this fall...
...looked to Rudenstine as a person who would inspire the Harvard community to overcome institutional inertia with good new ideas powerfully expressed. A tinge of idealism, a little poetry and some biting humor can disarm one's most vociferous opponents. Unfortunately, it's clear that Rudenstine (to quote Sen. Lloyd Bentsen) is no Jack Kennedy...
...term bill fees just wind up hurting the organizations they belong to. The U.C. is not only the centralized monetary fund for student groups, but one of the few, if not the only, means of directly voicing student concerns to the administration. The Harvard bureaucracy has its own inertia. Outdated policies do not change by themselves, but only through concerns raised by students, especially ones on the UC. The calendar reform and the abolishment of the Q.R.R. computer requirement last year are cases in point...