Word: gradual
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...symptoms had begun in their early 30s for both men. First there was the mild stiffening of limbs and the tremors that mark the onset of Parkinson's disease. Then came the gradual loss of muscle control, leaving them prisoners in their own bodies -- mentally lucid but physically unable to eat, urinate or comb their hair without assistance. Levodopa, the most common treatment for the debilitating illness, had ceased to work for one man and could not be tolerated by the other. Nor were other drugs of use. Facing further deterioration, the two agreed to become guinea pigs...
...helped draft an amicus curiae brief for the Truman Administration. He was prompted by Frankfurter's disclosures to go against his own sense of the proper legal argument and tailor the brief to offer the wavering judges a key compromise: that the court could permit states to take a gradual approach to integration. That tactic was later adopted in a unanimous court ruling that called for integration "with all deliberate speed...
...Boston deliberations was Attorney Burke Balch of the National Legal Center for the Medically Dependent and Disabled, based in Indianapolis. In an interview, Balch insisted that all human lives are equally valuable, however handicapped the individual. He is concerned that the feeding debate is part of America's "gradual but steady progression" since the 1970s toward "acceptance of the idea that lives judged to be of poor quality are better off not being lived." He also fears that the fine distinctions that Catholic theology tries to make between mercy killing and being allowed to die "naturally" may evaporate...
Most experts who try to chart the course of racism over the years now believe that the substantial gains of the 1960s and 1970s came to a gradual halt after the election of Ronald Reagan. "The resurgence of racist feelings and continued illegal discrimination are fostered by the Administration's refusal to admit that racism may still be a problem," says Urban League President John Jacob. More specifically, he cites "its efforts to give tax- exempt status to segregated schools, its fight against extension of the civil rights law, its efforts to undermine affirmative action, to destroy the Civil Rights...
WHEN Gay W. Seidman '78 won election to the 30-member Board of Overseers last spring, she prevailed over a recalcitrant administration and initiated gradual but perceptible reforms in the governing body...