Word: inertias
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...clear skin is clear skin, and after some initial inertia the team claimed its third dual match victory in five days, the previous two 9-0 wins over Penn and Tufts...
...this increasingly depressing outcome to America's creedal passion periods? A conflict between "history and progress," Huntington explains, one that involves the difficulty of campaigning for the old ways, made more difficult by the inertia of modern institutions. But a more convincing explanation might be this: that many Americans, not out of patriotism but out of callous economic or political self-interest, have perverted the American Creed itself (and not, as Huntington argues, just the institutional reforms that emerge from it) to hold people in bondage. It is no accident, it seems to me, that words like rights and liberty...
Predictions remain vague as to what else the advisory committee will recommend and how the faculty will respond, but Clark points out that professors here suffer from "general inertia" and "will try something only if it has been successful and looks easier than what they were doing before...
Ironically, then, nuclear power--one of the most sophisticated achievements of human intellect--survives because of short--sight-edness, dogmatic inertia, and the refusal to admit mistakes. The irony is cruel--not merely absurd--in light of the fear and bewilderment of people who live near places like Three Mile Island and Ginna, who realize that their safety is a pawn in a political game. Perhaps we may yet come to our senses and start closing down the 71 plants that stand like so many monuments to blind faith in technology and technocracy. But time is short, and the danger...
...take it for granted that what is good and works for us can be the same for others. Perhaps But we must not forget that others have to work within constraints placed upon them by millenia-old traditions--in all their enchanting beauty and painful inertia--and by often unyielding natural environments, constraints not so familiar to us. In such constraints, the purely modern ideals of free market and individualism may mean that some individualism flourish while may needlessly suffer their ways towards the equilibrium known as death. This is why, in the absence of any comprehensive alternative...