14 November 2017

• Sclerotic: Becoming rigid and unresponsive; losing the ability to adapt.
• He says he plans to liberalize and modernize his sclerotic society, expand the civil rights of women, reduce the economic power of the Saudi fossil fuel industry, and loosen the grip of the 5,000-member royal cousins club that has bled the country dry for generations. (Zev Chafeta).