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...look at that and I think, 'That's all behind us,'" Wise says. "we already know a lot someone else would have to figure out. That's the value of inertia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Entrepreneur Wants a Lens in Every Chicken | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

...issue on which Harvard's far-flung activist communities can unite: the minority communities, the feminist community and activists from other liberal and progressive groups should come together to forge a coalition around this issue. And then they should figure out the best way to make the inertia-laden people up top feel uncomfortable...

Author: By Daniel B. Baer, | Title: Where is Faculty Hiring This Fall? | 11/14/1989 | See Source »

...Verba Committee's policy recommendations may have fallen victim to Harvard's bureacratic inertia, but it's goals need...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Actions Speak Louder | 11/1/1989 | See Source »

Spence's plan is designed to increase thechances junior professors have at internalpromotion to tenure, but he says that Harvard hasenough institutional inertia that it will probablytake another five years before his reforms beginto have a noticeable effect...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: Five Years Of Spence: Technocrat Or Visionary? | 9/29/1989 | See Source »

...West, the month-old war seemed virtually over before it had even begun, and there began a period of mysterious inertia on both sides. The British called it the phony war, the French drole de guerre, the Germans Sitzkrieg. But the war was not over. It had barely started...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blitzkrieg September 1, 1939: a new kind of warfare engulfs Poland | 8/28/1989 | See Source »

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