Word: inertias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government to increase low-income housing in the City. Even if the University accepts such a recommendation in principle, it may well amount to nothing unless specific University officials can act both as authoritative voices of the University when dealing with outside agencies and as advocates for overcoming unintentional inertia within the University. In effect, Harvard probably needs a few officials of stature planted as a permanent Wilson committee within its administrative structure if it is to follow the path indicated by the committee...
Locked onto its target by a combination of control jets and spinning inertia wheels, OAO for several hours examined the ultraviolet emissions, telemetering its findings back to earth...
...over Europe-always worked with their own government and backed the Fatherland against the world. When Hitler's acts began to depart from even the tooth and claw morality accepted in earlier times, extending to calculated genocide, they made no moral distinction, possibly, in part, out of sheer inertia. Unlike most Germans, moreover, Alfried was perhaps powerful enough to have restrained the Führer. He did nothing. Long after the Nuremberg tribunal sentenced him to twelve years in prison, he, like Eichmann and the others, protested that he was just doing his duty. Released in 1951 through...
...stalemate in the popular vote would leave whichever-President without the national support he needs to carry on a war as adventuresome as the war in Vietnam. The reasons for not being at war are always there in the public's subconscious; so if left to its own inertia, popular opinion would be constantly carrying us towards peace. But the new President would have to show us why we would be killing ourselves and would have to prove we want to continue doing so. Even a Richard Nixon, who managed to win only in the House, would feel himself unable...
From the Desert of Death in the sunblasted south to the 18,000-ft.-high Wakhan Valley in the far northeast, the first blossoms of modernity have finally begun to sprout in the rugged kingdom of Afghanistan. So have the weeds. After 2,500 years of inertia, a startling 13-year spurt of modernization has made itself felt across much of the Texas-sized nation. The beginnings of progress have also brought new problems, political and economic. As a result, Afghanistan's course seems far less clear today than it did a few years...