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...fact, the radiation levels published in the Soviet press were 1% or less of the true figures. But there were other, subjective reasons for my complacency: my preconceptions, my mental inertia and sheer wishful thinking...
...forces creating the prevailing February winds of resignation, cynicism, irony and inertia are numerous and complicated. I don't have the solution...
...current response to AIDS is skewed, it may be because so much effort was required to overcome the inertia of the Reagan years. Congress found every Reagan AIDS budget inadequate and increased funding year after year. The AIDS political machine is running as efficiently as ever, and any modification of the nation's AIDS response will require a more dispassionate approach among activists...
...enough to see that there is little the U.S. can do to "help" Gorbachev turn his economy around in the near- or even medium-term future. By the same token, there was never all that much the U.S. could do, or did do, to hurt the Soviet economy. The inertia, the wastefulness, the corruption -- these have always been inherent in the Soviet system. Therefore their consequences are self-inflicted wounds rather than the result of Western boycotts or other punitive policies. The imposition more than 15 years ago of the Jackson-Vanik Amendment was politically symbolic but marginal...
...daughter. "For 25 years I have rarely appeared with my mom. This April I marched with her because of the abortion issue," says Friedan, who has organized a local chapter of Physicians for Choice. The abortion issue has helped galvanize college-age women -- and men -- out of their political inertia. Alexandra Stanton, 20, took a year's leave from Cornell to launch Students Organizing Students, an activist group devoted to protecting reproductive rights. SOS has already launched chapters on 100 college campuses. Says NOW president Molly Yard: "Abortion has strengthened our abilities to campaign on many issues...