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Shaller also says the relaxed atmosphere of study breaks is helpful for these discussions. "With a group it takes pressure or inertia away from people who would otherwise have to go themselves. It takes a lot more admission of some thing to haul yourself up to the third floor of UHS than just going to these meetings, where you can pretend you just want cookies...
...folly of MX should be apparent by now. It is only the inherent inertia of any large weapons system with a complex sum of industrial, defense, and governmental special interests that keeps the missile alive at all. America should cut its losses now, stop work on the giant missile, and move toward-those systems that enhance deterrence--small, mobile missiles and submarines. Of course, reduction of nuclear weapons is a desirable goal, but it can be done in much better, safer ways. "Build-down" should be recognized as a confused smokescreen for all the parties in Washington, and should...
Looking back on her 10 years here. Mayman waxes reflective about the institutional inertia she feels she had to battle to build up her programs. "A number of faculty members were against the University supporting the practice of arts, while many in the arts thought the office was bureaucratic padding," she says. But with such developments as the coming of the American Repertory Theatre and giving of drama courses for credit. Mayman says much of the initial opposition has been defused...
...President really wants "attainment of stability at the lowest possible level of forces," then his only reasons for supporting MX are automatic. The reflexes of "bigger is better and "what the Russians have, we must have" have won another victory in Washington. Congress needs to rise above this glacial inertia while there is still time, move quickly past MX, and go with the weapons systems that ensure peace bombers, submarines, and Midgetman...
...take on the evils of racial discrimination in Mississippi and organize students against the war in Vietnam. He was an outspoken opponent of the apartheid regime in South Africa, a lighter for individual rights in the Soviet Union, and a dedicated critic of what he termed the "institutional inertia" of Congress and the United Nations--a stance that earned him seventh place on the Nixon White House "enemies list...