Word: inertias
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...members of many groups say they can’t imagine taking Radcliffe out of their official names—either out of inertia, to preserve a link to women’s tradition or to keep a catchy acronym...
...throw money away in the meantime. But this plan has been in the making since last September, and there are no signs that it will be completed any time soon. Although the administration should be actively trying to speed up the completion and implementation of its new plan, bureaucratic inertia and inter-departmental bickering should not jeopardize America’s security. Before it is finalized, the Energy Department must be given the money it needs to protect nuclear material...
...focus on science—in order to energize and improve Harvard, Rubin will be a welcome ally. His trusted counsel, shrewd knowledge of politics and similar outlook will help to give force to initiatives which might otherwise languish in the face of bureaucratic opposition and inertia. Just as he did at the Treasury, Rubin will have to use his judgement to weigh Summers’ proposals on their own merits, not on the basis of their personal friendship. We have every expectation that he will...
...reason I had come to New Delhi was to participate in a Festival of Literature celebrating the fact that a disproportionate number of the writers prominent in the world today are of Indian descent. Japan, the paper also reported, was sinking ever deeper into a depression compounded by inertia and a national suspicion of change...
That only adds to the perception that cell-phone operators could do more to stop mobile mayhem. In the U.K. the tabloid press has regularly accused service providers of guilt by inertia. "Their pathetic inaction is responsible for a crime wave and pretty soon someone is going to be murdered for their mobile," blasted the Express. The French daily Libération also attacked service providers for their slowness in finding a solution...