Word: gradual
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Cans of Diet Coke have been available on campus for about the last three weeks as company officials followed a policy of gradual introduction to the diet drink market...
...billion from Social Security benefits, leaving a deficit estimated at a minimum of $180 billion. Budget Director David Stockman said it could even rise as high as $195 billion unless changes are made. Several White House advisers last year argued unsuccessfully for additional excise tax boosts and more gradual defense increases. This year, although even more worried about the deficit, they kept their counsel. Said one top aide of his boss: "We found he is adamant on the question of defense and taxes. So why beat a dead horse?" Indeed, at a Friday afternoon Cabinet meeting, Reagan made it plain...
...fifth consecutive military-appointed President, João Baptista Figueiredo, 64, who will not step down until 1985. Before the voting, Figueiredo, a folksy, blunt-spoken former cavalry general, hailed the elections as a vindication of his three-year policy of abertura (opening), the promise of a slow and gradual return of democratic freedom to Brazil. Said he: "We're going to stuff the opposition with democracy until they get indigestion...
...origins of the current price explosion go back to the cold winter of 1976-77, when gas shortages forced many schools and factories to shut down temporarily. After that disaster, Congress decided to spur new production by passing the Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978, which called for the gradual phaseout, through 1984, of price controls on gas produced from new wells. The law set guidelines on how much the cost of gas could go up each year. Pipeline companies, eager to ensure future gas supplies, signed numerous long-term contracts with producers, in which it was often agreed that...
...gradual growth that a child experiences between birth and maturity is regulated by a powerful hormone produced in the body's "master gland," or pituitary. If too much of the hormone is created, the child may become a giant; too little may cause a rare form of dwarfism. The production of the growth hormone is determined by another hormone, known as growth hormone-releasing factor (GRF). Scientists have known for decades that GRF is produced by the hypothalamus, located in the forebrain. But the problem of isolating GRF and then artificially reproducing it remained unsolved until the breakthrough, reported...