Word: inertias
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Having worked at BSH and having been heart-broken many times by institutional inertia and the lack of concern on the part of officials and doctors, I understand it's shortcomings. And to clear up a misconception one need not be a patient to understand what happens to them least of all a make-believe patient with preformed views...
...most infuriating consumers now. By all expert accounts, the FTC has failed in its task. Last week a special commission of 16 lawyers, professors and economists appointed by the American Bar Association explained the reasons for that failure. The agency, charged the commission, is a model of bureaucratic inertia, timidity and internal dissension, and it cries out for top-to-bottom reform...
...cannot be run on fun and flowers, the Beatles be latedly discovered after the death in 1967 of their canny manager and mentor, Brian Epstein. More interested in gadding about than tending to their enterprises, they left their convoluted corporate empire (see chart) to run on its own momentum. Inertia was not a successful philosophy. Three of the biggest companies in which the Beatles hold stakes have lately tumbled into trouble...
...barman. The barman (Jon Lee) is a model of stoic restraint and may represent serenity. He also represents something Williams does not admire: a planned hibernation of the spirit in which one evades any commitment to love, hate or passion. Instead of eloquence, the play offers truncated, disjointed sentences. Inertia usurps the role of action; the prevailing mood is torpor. All that Williams seems able to contribute is a little banal philosophizing about how the creation of art saps a man's life. Still, there is an axiom of the race track that a thoroughbred will eventually revert...
...with a graceless statement after Consolidation's supposedly "safe" Consol No. 9 turned into a gas-filled grave for 78 mine workers last November. The union boss philosophized that "as long as we mine coal there is always the inherent danger of explosion." Miners also complain about union inertia during this year's successful effort to get a bill through the West Virginia legislature compensating them for black lung, an irreversible condition that results from inhaling coal dust. Led by three coal-country physicians and joined by Congressman Ken Hechler and omni-purpose crusader Ralph Nader, most...