Word: inertias
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...into a political disaster, the Israelis set back the timetable for withdrawal of their troops from Lebanon. They were motivated partly by the desire to negotiate guarantees of security along their northern border, partly by the wish to deflect attention from the hated Reagan initiative until it died of inertia...
...parallel is not perfect: Americans are less committed to an egalitarian society, the New Deal and Great Society have lost their appeal in the face of the new selfishness, and one cannot be sure that voters will respond so directly, Still, a welfare state has a certain amount of inertia. One cannot easily deprive people of privileges they have had a taste of, and even Reagan has been forced to compromise, sparing Social Security, signing the new $5 billion jobs bill, and even raising some taxes. But the pressure for new taxes will continue as the projected deficit becomes...
...economic growth rate that last year was the lowest since World War II lies not with the machinery of the system but with the men who are its imperfect cogs. In essence, the article sternly reiterated Andropov's first policy speech, in which he decried Soviet inertia, incompetence and corruption with surprising frankness...
...Before you fly, that stuff has got to wash out of your system." To learn more about SAS, NASA will be sending physician-astronauts on the next three shuttle flights. They will study the relationship between the eyes and inner-ear system, and the effects on the body of inertia and weightlessness...
Finally, last summer, Nitze took it upon himself to overcome the inertia of the American policymaking process (see box). He embarked on a secret exploratory mission with his Soviet counterpart, Yuli Kvitsinsky. The two men came up with a plan that might have broken the bargaining impasse. Nitze would have given up the Pershing II program altogether and had the U.S. deploy enough cruise missiles to offset a greatly reduced force of SS-20s in Europe The purely military rationale of the Pershing IIs had always been the object of debate and doubt. Their range would not permit them...