Word: inertias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...alone in an uptown pad furnished with a mattress and a radio. "He got hung up on taking in weird people?runaway teen-agers and people like that." Taylor was also getting heavily into drugs, especially heroin. Zach Wiesner had quit the Flying Machine after three months. Partly from inertia and partly out of loyalty to Kootch, James hung on for a year and a half. Then he escaped?not to the structure of McLean or the tranquillity of Martha's Vineyard but to swinging London...
...Senior Editor Robert Shnayerson, who wrote the cover story with the assistance of Contributing Editor James Simon and Researcher Erika Sanchez. "It seems more shocking and irrational in 1971 than ever before that these conditions can exist," says Shnayerson. "But the problems are enormous - the bureaucracy, the inertia of the administrators, the high cost of change. I feel more pessimistic than I expected to feel...
Unhappily, all this seems remote. Only a fraction of 1% of the nation's entire crime-control budget is even spent on research. Beyond that, the system is mired in bureaucratic inertia and fiddle-faddle. Many exciting ideas are never institutionalized, the same problem that impedes school reform. In 1965, Psychologist J. Douglas Grant and his wife put 18 hardened California inmates (half of them armed robbers) to work studying how to salvage their peers. They blossomed into impressive researchers, skilled at statistics, interviews, proposal writing and the rest. Today, 13 of Grant's men are doing the same work...
...Masterly Inertia. Who wins? For the moment, Franco seems determined to exercise what Journalist Brian Crozier calls his "masterly inertia"-his practice of moving on an issue only as little as possible and as late as possible. Now that the army, too, has begun to fret about Spain's social disease, however, the pressure on the Caudillo to end the liberalizing influence of the technocrats may grow irresistible...
Many companies are reluctant to embrace new ideas, largely because of the inertia of management in large organizations. Foremen resist any challenge to their authority, and plant managers, who figure that they will be transferred in a couple of years, are reluctant to undertake any long-term program that will not show immediate results. But there is a powerful incentive for top management to press for new ways of doing things. One of the best-known advocates of job enrichment, Industrial Psychologist Frederick Herzberg of Cleveland's Case Western Reserve University, suggests that strikes are often welcomed by workers...