Word: gradual
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although Sofia's police were frightened enough to rough up Ecoglasnost, which has just 101 members, Bulgarians have no modern model for revolt. That, ironically, might make gradual change easier. Czechoslovakia has such a model -- 1968's Prague Spring -- and authorities there are taking no chances. Two weeks ago, they arrested Jiri Ruml and Rudolf Zeman, well-known editors of the underground opposition newspaper Lidove Noviny. More than 100 journalists, most of them government employees, have since signed a petition calling for the release of the pair and for the immediate legalization of the newspaper. Now the government is hounding...
...Henry B. Gonzalez (D-Tex.), chairman of the committee, did say a gradual reduction in deposit insurance may be considered as part of solving the S&L crisis. But he also said such a proposal "is a very serious matter, not a matter to be thrown out as a trial balloon...
...they finally have to confront themselves and a relationship based far more on shared genes than on common ideals. The wary way in which she and Jack circle in on a relationship is one of the truest representations of modern romance that the modern screen has offered. The gradual stripping away of false issues between the brothers (Why is Jack always late for gigs? Why does Frank fuss so much about his bald spot?) as they get down to the true ones (involving, naturally, their childhood and piano lessons) is done with similar subtlety. Kloves' delicacy as a writer...
...have a double problem in the Huallaga Valley--coca cultivation and subversion," Garcia said. "Unless coca substitution is gradual, all we will acheive is to make poor peasants even poorer and push them into the arms of the subversive movement...
...Brando's role is surprisingly small. For most of the movie, the action switches back and forth between the repression of Black protest in the town ships and the gradual disintegration of Sutherland's family, most of whom are exasperated by his crusade against apartheid...