Word: gradual
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...counteract three losses, but I thing we'll for sprints," said Hale "It will take gradual steps...
Lawmakers are particularly eager to pry open Japan's $20 billion telecommunications market. In the past two months, Administration officials have stepped up negotiations with Tokyo to win greater access to that market. The talks have been in anticipation of the gradual conversion of giant Nippon Telegraph & Telephone from a government monopoly to a private company, a change that begins this week. So far, though, Washington's representatives have been frustrated by what they consider to be Japanese reluctance to grant freer trade, and have made no more than modest progress. Said one top negotiator: "Substantial differences remain...
...call went out for Dr. J. William Langston, the hospital's chief neurologist. Langston took one look and was amazed. Carillo's symptoms suggested that he had been suffering for at least a decade from Parkinson's disease, a nervous system disorder that causes tremors and a gradual loss of mobility. But that hardly seemed plausible: Parkinson's rarely strikes anyone under...
...savings, and that could put upward pressure on interest rates. So far, only the influx of foreign money, which amounted to $62 billion in the first three quarters of last year, has prevented a crunch. Perhaps the most sinister aspect of the budget deficit is that its effects are gradual and masked by the general prosperity. "Deficits are not explosive," said Heller. "They are corrosive." Most disturbing, the U.S. will become a debtor nation this year for the first time since 1917. Peter Peterson, former chairman of the Lehman Bros. Kuhn Loeb investment firm and a guest at the TIME...
With the success of the pilot software project, she predicted a gradual expansion of the program. "We are bringing in new cases (for use with the software] all the time and I think more and more, cases will be written with software in mind...