Word: inertias
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...COURSE, institutional inertia can be tough to fight, especially at Harvard. Almost without exception, Bok was as much the symbol of conservatism as the agent...
...planet was made manifest by Chernobyl, acid rain, ozone-layer depletion, the greenhouse effect, vanishing forests and freshwater shortages. The ecological movement is now on the rise. Government policies are beginning to change. International ecological cooperation has begun. Yet it will take a tremendous effort to overcome the inertia of mindless devastation of the environment, or even restrain the inertia generated by the industrial...
...demilitarize and denationalize national security, it's no longer quite clear what is left, other than vague notions of peaceableness or stability or well-being. But such imprecision may not be a bad transitional state. After nearly a half-century's concern about national security, a certain etymological inertia may be inevitable. This ingrained way of ordering and worrying may yield not so much to outright retirement as to a kick upstairs -- to a grander role with little real significance...
...intelligent leader." My initial, positive reaction has remained basically unchanged. Gorbachev, like Khrushchev, is an extraordinary personality who has managed to break free of the limits customarily respected by the party bureaucracy. What explains the inconsistencies and half measures of the new course? The main stumbling block is the inertia of a gigantic system, the resistance, passive and active, of the innumerable bureaucratic and ideological windbags. Most of them will be out of a job if there is a real perestroika. Gorbachev has spoken of this bureaucratic resistance in some speeches, and it sounds like a cry for help...
...mask," a closed, totalitarian society capable of dangerously unpredictable actions. Detente would promote international security only if the West avoided letting the U.S.S.R. achieve military superiority and at the same time tried to promote a more open Soviet society. I reminded my listeners that the ingrained conservatism and inertia of the Soviet system militated against any rapid change. A few hours after the conference, Western radio stations and newspapers began carrying reports...