Word: gradual
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trillion U.S. economy, has been the engine of American growth in recent years. Since a long overdue return to thriftiness would put a damper on the economy, a too rapid conversion could be dangerous. "If everybody got religion and cut their spending 10%, we'd have a recession. Gradual change is what we need," says Cynthia Latta, senior financial economist for Data Resources, a forecasting firm...
...Stavropol region. That was when the strategic rocket forces started deploying the SS-20s. But that same year, Soviet civilian leaders began to have doubts about whether more and more nuclear weapons like the SS-20 necessarily meant more security and power for the U.S.S.R. The Kremlin initiated a gradual shift in emphasis away from nuclear weaponry to conventional weaponry as instruments of Soviet influence and intimidation, particularly in Europe. In January 1977 Brezhnev gave a speech at a World War II commemorative celebration in Tula, a city south of Moscow. The Soviet leader laid down what became known...
...knee. Explains Dr. Henry Mankin, chief of orthopedics at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston: "The nerve supply to the joint is crucial. If the nerves are lost, the mechanisms necessary to control the joint are not operative." In the past, attempted whole-knee transplants have resulted in the gradual degeneration of the joint, necessitating an artificial knee, a second graft or even amputation...
...much harder and slower than the last generation believed, that to work, it must be a building- by-building, street-by-street evolution. The planning for New York's new Battery Park City development, for instance, quite nicely incorporates many of the old ways; visual surprise was designed in, gradual changes of scale were carefully planned, stylistic variety and overall cohesion were both encouraged. "What we've learned," Fitch says, "is that if you want to rejuvenate a city, you have got to be very careful not to throw any kind of tissue away...
...uncertain. The immediate challenge for the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury is to control the dollar's descent -- no easy feat -- and prevent a free fall, which would scare off foreign investors, drive up U.S. interest rates and perhaps cause another panic on Wall Street. But even a gradual decline of the dollar is no panacea. It will impose hardships on the U.S. economy that cannot be easily shrugged off, and it may not help nearly as much as Treasury Secretary James Baker and the economists believe...