Word: gradualism
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MARCH can be so unfathomable sometimes. One day we were all suffering through February's legacy of slush and ice; one day later, the mercury had leapfrogged to nearly 80 degrees. Whatever happened to gradual seasonal transitions? Whatever happened to pleasant harbingers of summer like budding leaves, chirping jays and missed lectures...
...coming to an impasse. As for "advanced," who gives a damn anymore? But no matter: Moskowitz's current exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City (on view through April 24) contains some admirable paintings, even if the run-up to them is gradual...
...Wisconsin Republican Senator Robert Kasten would adopt a smaller and more gradual payroll-tax reduction, while removing the trust funds from the rest of the budget calculation and outlawing Social Security benefit cuts...
...German Prime Minister Hans Modrow. Two days later, Modrow signaled that he too had finally read the handwriting on the collapsed Berlin Wall. "Germany should once again become the united fatherland of all the citizens of the German nation," he said. Modrow unveiled a four-step process for the gradual merger of the two Germanys' economies, legal systems and governments that closely paralleled the plan presented in December by West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, except on one critical point. Modrow unequivocally called for a neutral Germany, demanding that both states "detach themselves" from their respective military alliances...
Even so, prices will have to drop considerably before surround-sound TV becomes a mass-market phenomenon like the Walkman or the VCR. Unlike those breakthrough products, which instantly transformed electronic life, the new TV systems are likely to be perceived by consumers as a more gradual -- though inevitable -- improvement. Moreover, the Walkman did not require major home remodeling to work its magic. At the Winter Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last month, Mitsubishi demonstrated a 120-in. rear-projection TV set that calls for a 6 1/2-ft. space to be cleared out behind a wall before...