Word: inertias
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...machine, man, or woman can tame Valentine Brose. When he applies for the boilerman job, he hopes the hours will permit him to collect his unemployment checks from a previous job. During the interview with Works Manager Price (Dana Elcar) he exudes balmy assurance, balmy panic and total inertia: "I'm satisfactory all right. Always been satisfactory. All my school reports: satisfactory satisfactory satisfactory. I went to the Grammar School, you know. I did Latin. Satis meaning enough, factory meaning works: Satisfactory. Had enough of work...
Overcoming Inertia...
...overcome the inertia which our present ignoirance about crime imposes on attempts at reform? Like the rest of nature, the human brain abhors a vacuum. If we do not help people move toward an understanding of how complex the issues and the facts in this field are, they will continue to think in terms of meaningless and often destructive oversimplifications. It will be difficult to get support for the process of change if discussion of issues is confined to whether to be for or against the Supreme Court, whether to be tough or soft on criminals, whether to support...
...Question. Under such conditions, how could an engine in orbit be restarted for a flight to the moon? Engineers speculated that if an Apollo vehicle were accelerated slightly, the inertia of the liquid hydrogen would force it toward the bottom of the tank. To provide that acceleration, they installed controllable, backward-pointing vents at the top of the SIV B's fuel tanks. They hoped that the gases gradually produced by the evaporating liquid fuel and oxidizer could be released into space to provide slight thrust and acceleration...
...lectures by locking the door at the opening bell ?to encourage promptness, he says; to keep the kids from fleeing, they say. As he carefully shows how a scientific theory can affect man's own view of himself, and requires students to explain such notions as velocity and inertia in their own words, the relevance hits them. The course, recalls Amherst Graduate Evan Snyder, "was absolute hell?but one of the most valuable intellectual experiences I've been through." One student slipped a note under Arons' door, reading "I can't help wondering if physics is really as interesting...