Word: gradual
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...extensive study of the problems plaguing the $2.4 million facility which was built in 1978, and kept the Q-RAC closed through the fall. Weather problems delayed the study for several weeks, but officials finally determined in early November that the University should repair the facility on a gradual plan, until refurbishing is completed next fall...
Joblessness has a similar ripple effect. The greatest source of stress is not the actual loss of the job but rather the gradual domestic and psychological changes it imposes. These can be devastating, says Sociologist M. Harvey Brenner, professor of health services administration at Johns Hopkins. Brenner has found that over a period of about 25 years beginning in the late 1940s, for each 1% increase in the national unemployment rate, there were 1.9% more U.S. deaths from heart disease and cirrhosis, 4.1% more suicides, and an upturn in the number of first-time admissions to state mental health facilities...
...launched cruise missiles, and see little gain in adopting a policy forgoing the first use of nuclear weapons in the event of war. The scholars support U.S. retention of land-based intercontinental missiles, even though the weapons are theoretically vulnerable to surprise attack. They also recommend, however, the gradual replacement of the multiwarhead Minutemen with the kind of small, single-war head weapons that were recommended by the Scowcroft Commission...
Ultraviolet radiation has less obvious but even more pernicious effects. By altering proteins in the lens of the eye, it causes a gradual deposit of yellowish pigment. As with the tan, this pigmentation is beneficial up to a point; it helps shield the delicate retina from UV damage. But the dense accumulation of pigment after years of sunning is the main cause of cataracts...
...Britain to Argentina, and Israel to the Palestinians, as in the long run they must, the grounds will have changed. Walesa has indicated his willingness to accept the new "political realities" if the regime softens its line. Argentina will at best be in a position to ask for a gradual transition to perhaps joint sovereignty with Britain. And while Palestinian nationalism lives, its locus may already have shifted from the P.L.O. in Beirut to the inhabitants of the West Bank. Voices there are now being heard speaking not of a P.L.O. state but, within the post-Lebanon terms...