Word: gradual
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...love story, the two lived in the same neighborhood as children, but there was little--if any--love interest before high school. ("I thought he liked my sister," Jean said. Donald, for his part, explained, "I didn't particularly like her, either.") later, however, love bloomed: "It was a gradual kind of thing. She started growing on me." By the end of Donald's junior year in high school, the two had decided to get married. The wedding came in June, 1979, after the two had spent Donald's freshman year apart...
...fears that if Egypt and Israel fail to reach some kind of autonomy agreement by April 26, the date on which the Israelis are scheduled to return the final third of the Sinai to Egyptian control, the two nations will be less susceptible to U.S. pressure. Haig foresees a gradual drift by Egypt toward rapprochement with the Arab world, and he expects Israel to become more nervous about its own security and thus less willing to negotiate. He also fears that if the talks do not succeed, they will eventually be superseded by something else-another Saudi Arabian peace plan...
...some moment in the water he must have realized that he would not live if he continued to hand over the rope and ring to others. He had to know it, no matter how gradual the effect of the cold. In his judgment he had no choice. When the helicopter took off with what was to be the last survivor, he watched everything in the world move away from him, and he deliberately let it happen...
WHAT, THEN, can the West do? It must start by comprehending the significance of the "Solidarity affair." The rise of a union that cried out for food as well as freedom shows the utter sterility of Communism and the gradual disintegration of the Soviet economic model. In the Soviet Union and most of the Eastern bloc countries, people are fed, clothed and housed at the barest level of subsistence. In Hungary, perhaps the sole exception to this rule, "socialist" market economy reforms have slowly--and quietly--phased in, bringing relatively more freedom and prosperity...
...communications cut-off cannot obscure the most important fact underlying the government's declaration of "a state of war" and "a state of emergency": that liberty--whether of speech, of assembly, or of labor--is anathema to Soviet-controlled regimes in Eastern Europe. A gradual meliorist approach to meaningful social reform is untenable for the Soviets and their puppets. The Polish workers are simply the latest victims to be sacrificed in the name of Soviet statism. Whether or not the Soviet Union intervenes militarily is unimportant at this point; the USSR will probably only refrain from doing...