Word: inertias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...improvements in the control and design of the overhead rotor. The J-2's rotor is stronger but also lighter and smaller than previous rotors, enabling it to be run up to speed faster. When heavier rotors used in the 1930s were al lowed to slow down, their inertia prevented them from being revved up quickly, causing control problems...
...waste is inherent in a fortress as vast as the Pentagon, especially when it is at war. Warmakers are interested in military results first and bookkeeping second. They are satisfied as long as their contractors are good, prompt, effective suppliers--which defense contractors usually are. Another reason is bureaucratic inertia. The DOD has always conducted business like this...
...increasingly dependent on the score in her hand, and while her opening phrases had been nicely shaped the rest was little more than competent reading. Still, she obviously had a good ear, enviable accuracy of pitch and a fair amount of vocal agility. Alto Eunice Alberts sang with the inertia typical of her voice range. Her aria in BWV 34 was a minor battle for tempo, she pulling back, Kirchner trying to move things forward...
...ticket. To her dismay, she discovers that he is impotent. "Your advertising is just dandy," sneers Bonnie, after their first no-love session. "Folks'd never guess you don't have a thing to sell." Yet Clyde does have a salable commodity: movement in a time of inertia, elation in the midst of depression...
...hundred visions and revisions"? Is there time for one to concentrate only on alleviating individual suffering, when American crises as great as the War or the racial situation exist? Perhaps the time has come when the liberal must recognize his inability to overcome the system's basic inertia and to effect real change without becoming a radical? For Afro and SDS, that time has come...