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Jennifer Davis, director of the American Committee on Africa, said that she agreed with Foltz's analysis of the inertia of U.S. South African policy during the last two decades, but that she saw a more significant shift in attitude during the Reagan presidency...
...policy. Stockman painted a lurid picture of unprincipled compromise, pork-barrel greed, and cowardice in the face of interest group pressure. As he neatly summed it up. Washington is a place where it doesn't make too much sense to "believe in the momentum theory...I believe in institutional inertia. Two months of response can't beat fifteen years of political infrastructure. I'm talking about K Street and all of the interest groups in this town, the community of interest groups. We sort of stunned it, but it just went underground for the winter. It will be back...
...those two-and-a-half hours Saturday, the inertia of a century will mingle with the skills of the current squads to produce a few moments of magic. Evidence? Consider 1968, when Harvard came back from a 29-13 deficit to score 16 points in the last minute-and-a-half to "beat" Yale 29-29 in Cambridge. Or 1970, when a slightly-dazed Crimson quarterback named Eric Crone was so happy about his team's 14-10 lead that he ran out of the end zone for a safety--almost costing Harvard the victory ("What in the world...
...easy to understand pre-Copernican beliefs in a flat earth and similarly easy to account for the accumulation of popular myths about the cold before the disease's viral nature became clear. But why do so many dubious beliefs persist in the face of new knowledge? The inertia of human prejudices is only part of the answer. An additional reason lies in the truth that a cold, typically, is far more than a mere medical event...
...Congressional leaders have warned Reagan that further cuts in domestic government spending, especially an encroachment onto slated social security payments, will anger their constituents, and may create strong opposition in the legislature. We can only wait to see if any opponents of these further Reagan proposals can overcome the inertia that has set in since their upsets of the summer...