sclerosis

That's not Microsoft mind you, that's multiple sclerosis.

The legal system suffers from sclerosis from all these laws being piled on top of each other.

Good match for a multiple sclerosis awareness website.

My sister has Multiple sclerosis, treatment is very expansive.

If the quality of engineers isn't kept high, or they don't know enough about how and why to minimize coupling, there's a risk of a kind of sclerosis that increases costs of change anyway.

To not obey the regulations out of disagreement is like saying "I don't believe that stealing is a crime, so I'm immune to those laws".Take the liberation therapy for multiple sclerosis [1] as an example.

Organizations like the US Army are willing to put money toward relatively common diseases like multiple sclerosis, because it impacts their people, that the government at large is uninterested in because it is not politically sexy.

The "continuous revolution" of a democratic system goes some way to remedying that defect, but it is at best a partial fix. This is a problem that all large organizations suffer from, be they democracies, dictatorships, public organizations or private companies: All types of organization, from armies to zoos are vulnerable to sclerosis, and the larger and more long lived the organization, the more vulnerable it gets.

...And this one by Roger Zelazny, pretty spot on until...> It is good to see that a cashless, checkless society has just about come to pass, that automation has transformed offices and robotics manufacturing in mainly beneficial ways, including telecommuting, that defense spending has finally slowed for a few of the right reasons,I stopped reading at "defense spending has finally slowed"... no one could have predicted George W. Bush I guessThis one is almost completely opposite:>Multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease will be effectively cured.