Word: inertias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...THESE PRESSURES subcommittee inertia of the kind seen this fall with intra-member feuding, blocked communication channels, and presidential de-emphasis, and you've got "no developments to speak of." If there is going to be progress, public opinion must be mobilized first. The best way to do that is to have a visible public commitment by a president...
...question of rent control and its off-shoot, condominium conversion, has fueled the election fires somewhat, creating much more heat than light. Since Clem has taken on the role of a fence-sitter, the council has left the future of rent control in a state of inertia. During one of the council's rhetorical debates of the subject, Graham said, "This doesn't mean very much at all because we don't have five votes for anything." Whatever the outcome of tomorrow's election, there will finally be five votes in the council to decide the issue of rent control...
Whatever the plan's shortcomings, even its critics give Carter the highest marks for focusing national attention on the problem, for ending the period of inertia and corridor infighting within the Administration, and for opening an intense, even vehement, national debate...
...mind that, but they did not appreciate Gorski's rather brusque way of handling the situation. To a great extent, what they resented most was how he made the changes, rather than what he changed. The problem grew worse because Gorski would not take into account the natural inertia of the police force, interpreting slowness to change as personal opposition. And personal opposition was one hindrance to efficiency that Gorski sought to eliminate. He gained a reputation as "a dangerous man to cross," as one officer put it. Most officers refused to speak to reporters during Gorski's tenure...
...working on a way to overcome them when he came to the school as dean in 1965. Ebert came with the hope of setting up an alternate system of care that would over-come the problems of impersonal, over-specialized, costly care. His political ability proved stronger than the inertia of the staid Medical School faculty, and in 1969 the doors of the Harvard Community Health Plan (HCHP) opened...