Word: gradual
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Still, forecasters have grown wary of trying to predict just where the high flying dollar might next be headed. Said Board Member Sam Brittan last week: "There could be a sharp drop in the dollar over the next six months, or there could be a gradual drop, or it could move even higher. The only honest answer is that we do not know." Having been consistently amazed by the dollar's surge, the experts now prefer to let the currency do the talking. - By John Greenwald. Reported by Christopher Redman/Washington and Adam Zagorin/New York
...address the question of whether this good-faith exception would apply when police act without a warrant, but the court may look at that issue soon. Dissenter William Brennan thought the majority had done enough already. "In case after case, I have witnessed the court's gradual but determined strangulation of the rule," he wrote. "It now appears that the court's victory over the Fourth Amendment is complete." David Shrager, president of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, agreed. "Good faith is just a code word for saying we're sick and tired...
...With the gradual recognition that participation in the Olympics does not provide an effective opportunity for political expression, nations bent on political manipulation of the Games have recently taken the opposite tack staying away are left particularly satisfied...
...democracy in 20 years. Four opposition parties, capitalizing on the popular discontent with the military government, lobbied hard for the amendment, which would provide for direct election of the next President. The government has resisted, however, trying to hold on to power as long as possible. They prefer a gradual return to civilian rule, after President João Figueiredo steps down next year...
Smith's departure will begin a gradual decentralization and expansion of the K-School's student job placement program, which he now runs. Under the new scheme, he faculty will have more input into career placement, which will help provide a better system of "networking" and ultimately increase job prospects, Smith said yesterday...