Word: gradual
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...enforced, the demobilization scheme will complete the gradual mutation of the contras from a military threat to a political force to a refugee remnant that U.S. officials have dubbed the "disposal problem." The Tela plan invites contras and their families to return to Nicaragua from their bases in Honduras but offers the option of resettlement in other countries. Honduras desperately wants the contras to go elsewhere, and Nicaragua has offered to repatriate them safely. But if the contras do not trust such Sandinista promises, the U.S. will face the painful question of its responsibilities toward the rebel force it created...
...insistence that people should just ignore these factors reeks of the kind of placating "polite feminism" or gradual action that does more damage to rights groups by discouraging any kind of real change. It is only a modified version of the "don't make waves" theory that the privileged class feeds the rest to ensure they remain...
...decline of Washington's influence over Western Europe, on the other hand, has been the gradual and inevitable result of its great postwar success. America's involvement in Europe was a welcome response to Soviet aggressiveness, not the cause of it. By helping rebuild its allies, the U.S. proved the strengths of its economic and political systems. Learning to deal with the robust partners that resulted has been a fitful process but a healthy one. The result is that now, as the cold war thaws, the U.S. can feel comfortable sharing with its allies the responsibilities, and financial burdens...
Protest against Vietnam helped continue the activism of the Civil Rights Movement. Perhaps protest against this threat of injustice will also galvanize people to stop the gradual erosion of other rights which began in this session of the Supreme Court...
...very act of revelation is a central feature in the gradual loosening of Communist strictures that Mikhail Gorbachev is bringing to the Soviet Union, as he grapples with the challenge of revamping the system without completely violating it -- and a stark contrast to the refusal of China's leadership to countenance the slightest openness...