Word: inertias
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...decades after their successful revolutions, both communist giants built massive ground forces equipped with heavy tanks and artillery. Since the 1970s, their military leaders have also given lip service to the need for lighter, faster forces and high-tech weapons. Partly out of bureaucratic inertia and largely because their economies were not up to the task, neither country actually moved into the modern military age of microelectronics. "People talk as if the Soviets haven't done their best, and have to do better," says Stephen Meyer, a military expert at M.I.T. "The point is, their best wasn't good enough...
...remainder of the book, Sakharov recounts his opposition to the inertia demonstrated by the Soviet government in its reform efforts, as well as his activities abroad on behalf of democracy and his theory of rapproachment between socialism and capitalism. The description of a visit to earthquake-devastated Armenia and Azerbaijan reveals Sakharov's compassion and understanding of his country's problems...
...Bush has good reason to indulge his intrinsic indifference to such things as block grants and toxic-waste disposal. Being Commander in Chief is more glorious and important than being commander of enterprise zones. But without presidential leadership, inertia is likely to set in on the home front. Television screens flicker throughout the Federal Triangle as bureaucrats play CNN generals rather than go about the unglamorous work of governing. Reducing America's appetite for foreign oil, finding an affordable way to restore civility to cities that resemble war zones, giving the 20% of America's children who live in poverty...
Hall says he believes that the same factors that led to Afro-Am's troubled origins have not changed. "Inertia still prevails," Hall says. "These problems are complicated by the peculiar problems of the history department at Harvard, its inbred quality that self-selects from its own graduate school...
...technology," says John Ettlie, director of the Office of Manufacturing Management Research at the University of Michigan. The paralysis has spread beyond the U.S., since the gulf crisis has boosted oil prices and interest rates around the globe. French Prime Minister Michel Rocard has cited a "tendency toward inertia that is gaining ground in the face of these immense risks." Adding to the sense of suspended animation is the increase in corporate security measures, which at many companies has included a ban on most foreign travel...