Word: torpor
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...regret how difficult it is for Harvard's student government to publicize all it accomplishes. We do publish the UC newsletter at the end of the Independent every other week, but the newsletter barely counters all the bad press given by the Crimson; nor does it counter the general torpor or ambivalence surrounding students' opinions of their government...
...marketplace mentality toward education that is now in vogue. "Children are not widgets, and the less successful cannot be discarded like failed businesses," he says, not without a trace of anger. "On the other hand, the educational establishment in this country needs to be sandblasted out of its torpor." Sam has never had a high tolerance for torpor, and we like that...
Unlike commercial developers, U.S. manufacturers have been shaking off their torpor as purchases of everything from steel to refrigerators have begun to pick up. Orders for U.S. factory goods climbed a healthy 1.8% in April, their first gain since last October...
Once Harvard (6-9 overall, 4-0 Ivy) snapped out of its torpor, however, it erased a 19-point deficit and overtook the visiting Wildcats (2-17) en route to an emotional 71-64 victory...
...negotiable. Saving face is more important than telling the truth. Yet what President Carlos Salinas de Gortari is striving to achieve is unusually straightforward. Since his inauguration in December 1988, Mexico's 42-year-old leader has trained his formidable skills on awakening his country from inward-looking torpor to a world where market forces are increasingly international and interdependent...