Word: gradualism
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Alzheimer's disease is a progressive neurological disorder. It causes gradual memory loss, impairment of judgment, disorientation, personality changes, difficulty learning and loss of language skills...
...loser last week was Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov, whose more conservative scheme for a gradual switch to a market economy -- to be achieved over a period of two years -- was rejected by parliament in June. According to rumors, Ryzhkov was so disappointed at being bypassed on the commission that he refused to sign the document that created...
...trouble is, NATO is broken, at least conceptually. Its reason for being was to deter the Soviet Union from launching an invasion through West Germany to the English Channel. With that danger diminished to the vanishing point, NATO is already undergoing its own deconstruction, more subtle, dignified and gradual than that of the Warsaw Pact but in the long run just as relentless...
...said the reforms were expected to have a gradual but lasting impact on Japan's trade surplus with the U.S., which totaled $49 billion last year...
...warned the class of "the pervasive distrust and cynicism that infect public life today," citing the gradual erosion of the public's faith in American government beginning with the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal...