Word: gradual
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this interventionist approach to childbirth that enrages Harrison above all else. What she saw at her hospital bears no resemblance to the gradual, intimate, rhythmic process she found so moving during home births. "Childbirth is a surgical procedure," she is told in training. Though Harrison believes that each deli very has its own "natural pace," births at the hospital are expected to follow the contours of an idealized graph of how labor is supposed to progress. When a woman departs from the curve, doctors turn to preordained procedures. They may speed things up by administering Pitocin, a labor-inducing drug...
...other ending that Britain now has in mind is a gradual invasion. As one senior British diplomat told TIME Correspondent Frank Melville, "The strategy is not a simple choice between war and peace. What the government intends is a stage-by-stage repossession, with partial landings on the West and then the East island, but with the door being left open for continuing diplomatic efforts. This means pushing the Argentines to the conference table on a realistic basis by exerting greater and greater military pressure until their nerve fails them...
...subject could not be more serious: an actor's gradual betrayal of political, not to mention moral, principle in return for professional advancement in Nazi Germany. The style could not be more surprising. One has come to expect material of this kind to be set forth in a tone of grim and stately foreboding. Instead, Mephisto, a Hungarian-German coproduction that richly deserved its Oscar as this year's Best Foreign Film, moves with a feverish back-staginess, a rushing, unbalancing energy that not only freshens one's historical imagination but finally forces the viewer to turn...
...does a museum build upon a scholarly foundation? According to Cross, it is a gradual, almost organic process. A small department builds a scholarly reputation through hard work, both in publishing and in teaching. It attracts more graduate students, who eventually win teaching positions at other institutions, and more prestige falls to the department. Finally, the administration realizes what is happening and creates even more junior and senior faculty positions...
...inheritor of El Salvador's accumulated political and economic woes. Among the reforms that Duarte sponsors are the nationalization of local banks, the continuation of the land reform that has expropriated the country's largest agricultural estates and turned them into peasant cooperatives, and a gradual purging of human rights violators from El Salvador's 22,000-member security forces...