Word: gradual
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...effort to update its image, Ms. recently launched a trade advertising campaign showing the gradual transformation of a hippie type, complete with beaded headband, into a blow-dried '80s woman. The tag: "We're not the Ms. we used to be." The campaign is reminiscent of a highly successful series of ads for another '60s-era publication, Rolling Stone, juxtaposing outdated "perceptions" of the magazine next to the "reality." Perception: a psychedelic van. Reality: a spiffy red sports...
...also proposed a gradual increase in the annual school system budget from $16M to $21M in the next five years. This new monies will be primarily raised by the University itself through fund-raisers and will help cover the cost of higher teacher salaries, construction of a new high school and elementary school, as well as extensive renovations...
...Soviet empire within its own boundaries, forcing the Marxist-Leninist-Stali nist system to stew in its own poisonous juices. The author of that strategy, George Kennan, believed Soviet Communism "bears within it the seeds of its own decay." Containment, he wrote in 1947, could eventually lead to "the gradual mellowing of Soviet power." But until then, he stressed, "there can be no appeal to common purposes...
...depicted in a line or two of dialogue as a person arrives at a party (`No thanks, I'm driving'), or as a couple discusses `Who's driving tonight?' or as several young people decide to share a taxi. Our hypothesis is that the impact will be gradual, incremental and ultimately far-reaching," he said...
Sometimes, though, I'm not so sure. In the nearly 30 years I've been writing about New Orleans, part of what I've been writing about is the gradual fading of its foreignness. I suppose yats still hold practice parade the week before Mardi Gras, but in a lot of ways Mardi Gras has become a more American event. The number of people roaming the streets of the French Quarter on Mardi Gras day seems to have increased steadily and the percentage of them in costume seems to have decreased, as that part of the Carnival celebration has changed...