Word: gradualism
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...damaging DNA, altering biochemical compounds, corroding cell membranes and killing cells outright. Such molecular mayhem, scientists increasingly believe, plays a major role in the development of ailments like cancer, heart or lung disease and cataracts. Many researchers are convinced that the cumulative effects of free radicals also underlie the gradual deterioration that is the hallmark of aging in all individuals, healthy as well as sick. Antioxidants, studies suggest, might help stem the damage by neutralizing free radicals. In effect they perform as cellular sheriffs, collaring the radicals and hauling them away...
Epps says he is not sure how his plan could be implemented. While "we wouldn't see the whole system change at once," he says he could imagine a gradual change...
...considering the current focus and membership of the clubs, it might have to be a very gradual change, indeed...
...being not only the most aggressively racist of all the right-wing groups but also the most violent. At the root of its militancy is what it terms the swart gevaar, or black threat, combined with a conviction that reforms during the past decade have amounted to a gradual capitulation to communist-inspired black domination...
...Translation: if Yeltsin yields too much, too fast to Kiev, he will be swept away by a coalition of demagogues bent on exploiting the hardships of the citizenry and die-hard believers in the old union. To be peaceful, a divorce between Kiev and Moscow will have to be gradual...