Word: inertias
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...mind that, but they did not appreciate Gorski's rather brusque way of handling the situation. To a great extent, what they resented most was how he made the changes, rather than what he changed. The problem grew worse because Gorski would not take into account the natural inertia of the police force, interpreting slowness to change as personal opposition. And personal opposition was one hindrance to efficiency that Gorski sought to eliminate. He gained a reputation as "a dangerous man to cross," as one officer put it. Most officers refused to speak to reporters during Gorski's tenure...
...working on a way to overcome them when he came to the school as dean in 1965. Ebert came with the hope of setting up an alternate system of care that would over-come the problems of impersonal, over-specialized, costly care. His political ability proved stronger than the inertia of the staid Medical School faculty, and in 1969 the doors of the Harvard Community Health Plan (HCHP) opened...
Change will come ever so slow in men's sports for the sheer weight of inertia is overwhelming. But women's sports are hopefully still in a formative stage and will be responsive to insightful and intelligent leadership...
With a later break for dinner and a shift to another room for fresher air, she talked continually until 3:30 in the morning. As the hours passed, her own energy level mounted, and she seemed not to mind that her listeners became enervated, even drowsy, from physical inertia in relentless heat...
...trio spends most of American Buffalo planning to burglarize the apartment of a coin collector who has recently appeared in the shop. But the men are gradually undone by their own inertia, mistrust and ineptitude. The job never conies off. At the end they draw together in a fragile bond of shared futility, human castoffs alongside the inanimate ones...