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Sooner or later the world's governments will overcome their inertia and examine the International Red Cross's and other nations' reports on weapons. In the meantime, the possession of weapons--particularly nuclear weapons--is more likely to attract international attention...
...professor. "I like what I do" he says. "I like the teaching and I like the research." He also likes Cambridge--"an exciting place"--where he has become firmly rooted year-round with his wife, son, and two daughters. But Mendelsohn has had to be always wary of academic inertia. "The University, at times, likes to fool itself," he says wryly. "It seemed so peculiar to watch the University trying to be aloof from the war and hearing ROTC marching around down by the Divinity School...
...question remains why Americans put up with the perversion of the democratic ideal, who or whatever is responsible for that perversion. For Boorstin, the answer is sheer inertia. Not living up to the ideal was simply easier than living up to it. Americans had more important things to do than to worry about abstract notions like democracy. It was the moment's profit and not the ideal that counted...
...also said in his statement that the University had moved far too slowly in appointing a search committee to seek additional tenured faculty for the department. "In at least one appointment [to the search committee] and perhaps out of bad faith from some quarters there was a built-in inertia in the composition of the committee," Nwafor said...
Peterson said that the availability of housing close to the Harvard campus influenced his decision to come to the University. He said that the scale "may have been tipped toward inertia" had no house been available, and that he might have continued teaching in Utah...