Word: gradualism
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...past 10 years or so, Wolf has seen the Square undergo a gradual metamorphosis that she says she finds "disappointing." Many of the distinctive specialty shops and family-owned retail stores she used to walk by are gone, replaced by big-name chain outlets and trendy yuppie havens. Where once she saw a panoply of individualistic store fronts, she now sees a high-rise facade of modernized merchandising...
...kinds of threats we are seeing now are more gradual. What could be the economic equivalent of Sputnik...
...moved to Israel since Mikhail Gorbachev relaxed the restrictions on emigration in 1989. They know that at home the winter promises only hardship and that the rise of nationalist groups could revive harsh anti- Semitism. But they also see around them the signs of renewal for Soviet Jewry -- the gradual reopening of Jewish schools and cultural centers, the increasing attendance at synagogues -- and a new push for democracy in the aftermath of last month's failed coup. "I am a member of the Russian intelligentsia," says Nemov, "and my place is here...
...seduce her that the romantic method won't work. The central male, informed that someone loves him, replies that no such thing exists. His best friend's mantra: "Everybody lies." To underscore the nihilism, playwright Brad Fraser, 32, interweaves teen folklore of erotic mayhem, references to AIDS and a gradual unveiling of a serial killer -- all with mordant humor (a man going to a pickup bar shouts to his female roommate, "I have a blind date with destiny!"). A hit in Fraser's native Edmonton, Alta., and in Chicago, Human Remains is not only stylistically apt and journalistically observant about...
Shamseddine called for a comprehensive swap--rather than gradual releases--of Arab prisoners held by Israel in return for the 11 Westerners held by Shiites in Lebanon. But Israel says the detainees will only be freed after a full accounting of its seven missing servicemen...