Word: inertias
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Despite the lack of a major foreign threat, military spending still remains at a very high level, because of ineffective threat reassessment, bureaucratic inertia and poor Congressional leadership, Walker said...
...glacial inertia against which Harvard has tenured a handful of minority and women faculty--this, despite the fact that the 1980 Dean Whitla Report admitted that Harvard practiced "at best, passive recruitment" of people of color...
Under the Russell administration, inertia will be the guiding force of Cambridge's municipal government. Russell says, "We don't need to make any dramatic political changes." Such a legislative laissez-faire stance is probably how she got into office in the first place, given the stubborn partisan voting of city council members. After all, would the more liberal Cambridge Civic Association have funneled their four votes her way if she was promising action? Nevertheless, we would like to offer an agenda for the city so that Russell can lead while supported by a greater consitutuency than her fellow council...
...Republican parties is also contributing to the saturation of the two-party system. As traditional liberals react against so-called "New Democrats," while moderate Republicans attempt to neutralize the "Religious Right," more candidates and voters are becoming increasingly frustrated with their two options. This frustration can transform two-party inertia into third-party momentum...
Arnold Professor of Science William H. Bossert '59, master of Lowell House, says that a faculty composed of older professors suffers from intellectual inertia. Older faculty, he says, have less incentive to break from the traditional molds that have been so successful for them...