Word: gradualism
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...declined," Rusty says he told Saeed. "And I'm concerned." Rusty, as had been his practice, answered most of the questions, at one point describing how Andrea woke up screaming from a nightmare in which she was "trapped in bed." Each gradual improvement, he told Saeed, had been followed by slightly faster declines, particularly in the previous few days. He wanted Saeed to consider shock therapy again...
...father started the business in 1939 but lost everything when Egyptian industries were nationalized in 1963. The family struggled back with small enterprises, at one point transforming a waste product generated by Ideal, another nationalized appliance company, into decorative moldings. Sallam's business has been transformed with Egypt's gradual implementation of economic reform, notably since 2004, when Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif took office in a Cabinet that included leading ex-businessmen. Sallam, who retains a 52% stake in the company, credits the government's moves to devalue the Egyptian currency, reduce tariffs and slash corporate taxes with enabling Olympic...
...always responded." Not yet 20, it was clear that he had a deep drive for business. Between his university exams, Elkann would forego vacations to embark on internships within the company's holdings - at a Birmingham headlight plant, a Lille Fiat dealership, a Krakow assembly line. "It was a gradual process of being tested and wanting to be tested," Elkann recalled. "[Agnelli] saw that I was committed to the work. He believed you should do what you like doing in life. He believed in people developing the capabilities they're most suited for." In the Agnelli bloodline, that often means...
...heroic scenario: the explosion of the doomed planet Krypton, the miraculous escape of the infant son of a Kryptonian scientist, the discovery of the baby's spaceship by an elderly couple near the Midwestern town of Smallville. And the gradual revelations of the child's superhuman strength, the foster parents' exhortation that he "must use it to assist humanity," the youth's adoption of a dual identity--the mild-mannered, blue-suited newspaper reporter, Clark Kent, and the red-caped, blue-haired Superman, the man of steel ... [He] is a figure who somehow manages to embody the best qualities...
...Congress that ever thicker blankets of protection were needed to preserve American jobs. Wilson, calling the tariff "stiff and stupid," promised an immediate revision. Roosevelt, arguing that a speedy change would disrupt the economy, proposed a permanent nonpartisan commission of experts able to make impartial recommendations for more gradual reform...