Word: inertias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yale's main difficulty in passing the new grading system, was overcoming inertia. The Courses of Study Committee took two years before making its unanimous recommendation, and then only a third of the faculty turned up to vote on it. The supporters, including the dean of the Yale Graduate School, won by a 10-1 ratio. The Committee on Educational Policy at Harvard should overcome the similar faculty inertia here and press for action on the fourth-course pass-fail and the language requirement...
...were raised from $6,000 to $16,000 last year), research staffs and offices of their own. In Illinois, where lawmakers use corridors as offices, a new $18 million legislative office building will soon be built. But improvements come slowly. State governments are more often characterized by "stagnation and inertia," says the C.E.D. report, than by drive and initiative. Unless they are "renovated in far-reaching ways," it concludes, "their policy and functional roles will wither away...
This procedure gives the Administration an advantage which it normally does not have in its dealings with Congress on the District. For once, Congressional inertia will be its ally rather than its antagonist. In light of past Congressional-D.C. relations, inertia can be a powerful ally...
...inertia is the proper word to describe trends of upward mobility in the hierarchies already discussed, then a much stronger term is required when one examines the new blood at policy-making levels. With minor adjsustments, policy-making in China rests with the Politburo elected a decade ago, and the execution of these policies is the responsibility of a small Central Secretariat elected at the same time. Officially, the Politburo now consists of 22 men and the Secretariat of 15 (seven of whom are currently on the Politburo). But as the readers of the Chinese press know...
Bureaucratic inertia and sensitivity to criticism have so far been more troublesome than political entanglements. The Center has contracted to evaluate several urban programs run by government agencies and non-profit groups. To their chagrin, the Center's researchers are finding, as one put it, that "while academics may thrive on criticism, bureaucrats don't." When one of the Center's reports criticized a Roxbury agency for not reaching the low-income population that it was supposed to serve, the agency and the Federal officials who were financing it immediately denounced the Joint Center...