Word: inertias
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...flank. When he later chastised Yegor Ligachev, a Politburo member regarded as the country's leading conservative, Gorbachev was guarding the other flank. "Left-wing phrasemaking is the wrong medicine," Gorbachev said during the meeting to select Moscow's conference delegation. But in the same speech he blamed "inertia and old-style methods of management through command and pressure" for failures in the economy. In other words, the fault lay with both sides, and he was a clear-eyed St. George prepared to slay the dragons of right and left. Asked Gorbachev: "What should we do in the face...
...things I have learned from activism is that people like Bok and Reagan and Botha have a lot of resources at their command. They have law, tradition, inertia, and if all else fails, clubs and guns on their side. That's where the heart of all this talk of goverance is--these people have a lot of power. I don't have to apologize for trying to be innovative and resourceful, for trying to find new ways of changing things. Being in a riot isn't enough; forceful and militant tactics are only one part of what must of necessity...
...with a wet eye could see that his mother in the gallery and his son at his side had more to do with a sixth victory surging out of him at 46 than did the oversize putter he waved jubilantly. "I wanted something with the largest possible moment of inertia and the smallest dispersion factor," he said at the time...
Although legislation was introduced in Congress last fall, so far the campaign for a hard dollar remains a shiny dream. "We're talking strictly public inertia," admits Jim Benfield, a lobbyist for the Coin Coalition, which includes copper interests and convenience stores. About half a billion of the last dollar-coin attempt, the forlorn Susan B. Anthony dollar that was issued eight years ago, collect dust in vaults across the country...
...this inertia lies in the original structure Lowell believed would stimulate the minds of students and professors alike. Each house has a plethora of senior and junior faculty members affiliated with its senior common room (SCR), and more than a dozen residential tutors as well. But to most students, SCR members are just names and pictures in the house face book. And even when the faculty members make their pilgrimages to the houses, undergraduates show little interest...