Word: inertia
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...came partly, I suppose, because it was Harvard," Ebert explained yesterday. "But the major reason that I came was that while I felt that there was a lot of inertia at Harvard, and that it would never change very rapidly, I felt that it wasn't afraid of change--much less so than other institutions...
...each case the challenges were at least partially neutralized, usually by a combination of reform and inertia--with reform kept within the limits of final senior faculty control of the departments...
About the best thing that you can say about last night's Harvard-Princeton basketball encounter at the IAB is that it finally ended. In a game which served the same purpose an a sleeping pill, the Tigers scored a 70-55 triumph over an inertia plagued Crimson squad...
...change at the Examiner is shocking to most San Franciscans, since "no change" served as a standard for a generation. Indeed, inertia has been the rule for both of the city's dailies, the Chronicle and the Examiner, since they joined forces in 1964 to cut costs by establishing a joint company, Printco, which handles printing, distribution and advertising for the two newspapers and puts out a combined Sunday edition, the Examiner & Chronicle...
...rewritten by Albee, or so some critics said. After creating the wily priest and the slandering lawyer in Tiny Alice, the play that immediately followed Virginia Woolf, Albee no longer seemed able to invent any characters that possessed dramatic vigor. They all appeared to be suffering from acute spinal inertia and total mental ennui. Finally, he largely abandoned his strong suit, which was a flair for vituperatively explosive dialogue and bitchy humor. Instead, his characters have spoken for years now with intolerably stilted pomposity, as if they had wandered out of an unpublished work by some minor Victorian novelist...