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...remembers finding Washington a "hostile environment." The campaign operation was often a mud wrestle among contending egos. "I was the loyalty thermometer," he says. Frequently he cut through bureaucratic inertia to get necessary decisions made. And he was ever leery of leaks and resentful of the personal ties to reporters that Atwater and other heavyweights had. Yet it was Junior who went on the record with a Newsweek correspondent to deny salacious gossip about the candidate. It was a brash act that both got the adultery rumor into print and choked off its circulation. Occasionally Atwater used...
HOWEVER, even though we are optimistic about the international scene and view Bush's recent arms proposals in a favorable light, we remain dismayed at the new president's inertia on the domestic front. For while taking an initial cautious approach may be prudent in matters of foreign policy, it seems ill-advised in matters of domestic policy that desperately need to be addressed. Granted, curtailing the drug epidemic in our cities or reducing the nation's budget deficit may not be exciting or dramatic, but they are as vital to America's future as any conventional arms agreements...
Until recently, the very degree to which abortion had become accepted had led to inertia among pro-choice forces -- it is not easy to mobilize to defend the status quo. Pro-choice activists have also been criticized for failing to take sufficient account of the mixed feelings that abortion can give rise to. Lately you can hear some of them framing their arguments with greater care. "Nobody likes abortion. It's a difficult choice," says Kate Michelman, executive director of the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL). "Women don't have abortions they want. They have abortions they need...
...much of the council's business is simply a matter of form--her fellow councillors approve virtually any order she brings them, as long as it does not involve money. Attempts to deal with the semiautonomous Redevelopment Authority teach her the three I's that often dominate city administration--inertia, indolence and incompetence...
...expression "affirmative action" to mean preferential treatment for disadvantaged groups....We take affirmative action to mean conscientious effort to counteract passive as well as active discrimination....Affirmative action involves vigorous effort to search beyond traditional networks; to broaden traditional definitions of field, approach or criteria; and to resist the inertia that works to ensure relative homogeneity among faculty and students...