Word: inertia
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This crisis of homelessness persists in part because of institutional inertia and widespread "compassion fatigue." We're becoming increasingly resistant to appeals for charity. It's been "widely acknowledged that the "crusade for the public conscience has been lost...
Although this noble sentiment is fundamentally well-grounded, the strategy is extremely inefficient. After all, the council has inertia on its side. The true solution to the waste of money should be clear: permanent dissolution of the entire council. And, to be democratic about the whole affair, let's put it to a vote...
...Eurasian plants known as apple trees. The first two are gags that were probably old when Vice President Al Gore's father Albert Sr. was first elected to the Senate in 1952. Their antiquity indicates how deeply entrenched are the habits of bureaucratic bumbling, and the immense force of inertia that sustains them. The paperwork story was presented as fact by a Treasury Department worker sounding off at one of the "town-hall" meetings the Vice President has been holding with federal employees. It points to the failure of previous attempts to carry out the job President Clinton has given...
...Inertia has been the curse of Arab-Jewish relations for too long. Each people came to nurse profound grievances against the other based on mutually exclusive interpretations of history. Jews knew that they had been dispossessed by Caesar, dispersed into exile and repeatedly persecuted, in fact nearly destroyed; returning to the home God promised to Abraham, they saw themselves in mortal danger again. Arabs viewed modern Israel as colonialism by a new name, one more indignity visited on them in a 1,000-year-old struggle between the West and Islam...
...National Commission on AIDS completed four years of work with a bitter report charging that prejudice and political inertia have prevented the nation from making an adequate response to the epidemic. "I think a lot of people in America don't believe the roof is about to cave in on them," said one member...