Word: gradual
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...international economic climate had become in the past 16 months. In September 1985 the so-called Plaza Accord on exchange rates was hammered out between Treasury Secretary James Baker, architect of the agreement, and the finance ministers of Japan, West Germany, France and Britain. It provided for a gradual and orderly decline in the value of the dollar, which had reached a peak in February 1985. Before last week, the dollar had dropped 28.7% against other major currencies...
...uses of fetal-cell surgery, the most successful to date has been the treatment of Type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetes. This disease, which afflicts about a million Americans, results from the gradual destruction of small islets of insulin-producing cells in the pancreas. Without insulin, the body cannot convert sugars into energy. Even with careful diet and daily doses of insulin, Type 1 diabetes can eventually lead to blindness, kidney failure and strokes...
Most professional dietitians favor a program of gradual, moderate changes in eating habits, often recommending "grazing," or eating many small meals throughout the day. It can take a year "to change people's ways of thinking and behaving in regard to eating," says Sherry Siegel, founder of a Chicago weight-consulting firm. There are also those who proffer unorthodox advice, like Oz Garcia, a successful, self-taught New York City nutritionist who decides what clients should eat after he has analyzed their hair. "I was a walking penny," says Amy Greene, 54, a makeup consultant at the chic Henri Bendel...
...largest bank last week announced it was selling its share of Barclays National, South Africa's biggest commercial bank, for $116 million to a consortium of South African firms, including Anglo American, a diversified mining and manufacturing company, and the De Beers diamond concern. The divestiture, which followed a gradual reduction of the British bank's holdings in Barclays National to 40.4% by last year, was made in the face of rising worldwide sentiment against apartheid and doing business in South Africa. Said Sir Timothy Bevan, chairman of Barclays: "I'm not a coward, but it's no good being...
...self-interest, an ability to learn from experience and the realization that a relationship will continue over time. When games of "Prisoner's Dilemma" are played over long periods, a strategy of reciprocity proves to be most effective. On such realist premises, it is quite possible to expect a gradual evolution of American-Soviet cooperation...