Word: gradualism
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...Mrema shies away from the economic and political affairs of her country. She says correcting the flaws in African economies and governments necessitates gradual change, and that investing in education, on the other hand, is not only more attainable, but also the bedrock of the future...
...Today, however, there are hints of gradual relaxation of restrictions, spurred by a peace agreement and booming oil revenues - a handful of musicians has returned from self-imposed exile to test the limits of the new tolerance...
...like getting the first date with the best-looking girl on the block," says Stuart Ferguson, chairman of the New Zealand-China Trade Association: in this case, ahead of suitors Australia, Norway and India. Details are a closely held secret, but the deal is expected to give Kiwis gradual relief not only from tariffs but from the red tape that bedevils their efforts to get products into Chinese stores. "Everybody is holding their breath in the fervent hope that there are no glaring holes in it," says Ferguson. "But from what I understand there should be no disappointment...
...dynamic players,” Harvard coach John Tillman said. “They’ve all been playing together for a long time. They disrupt you with the way they play. It was funny because it was 10 in a row but it was a kind of gradual scoring.” Duke would score two more in the final five minutes of the half—both on assists from Danowski, who contributed six points on the day—with 4:21 and 2:14 left to go into the locker room with...
...solve it." Given that the party rose to power as an agrarian movement, conservative forces are blocking attempts to grant private ownership of farmland, which they believe would destroy one of the party's most fundamental socialist tenets. The answer, say Yu and some other academics and lawyers, is gradual reform that gives farmers more control over their land and cracks down on corruption and illegal land seizure. But with local governments earning as much as half of their income from land sales by some calculations, resistance is fierce...