Word: gradualism
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...decline of Washington's influence over Western Europe, on the other hand, has been the gradual and inevitable result of its great postwar success. America's involvement in Europe was a welcome response to Soviet aggressiveness, not the cause of it. By helping rebuild its allies, the U.S. proved the strengths of its economic and political systems. Learning to deal with the robust partners that resulted has been a fitful process but a healthy one. The result is that now, as the cold war thaws, the U.S. can feel comfortable sharing with its allies the responsibilities, and financial burdens...
Protest against Vietnam helped continue the activism of the Civil Rights Movement. Perhaps protest against this threat of injustice will also galvanize people to stop the gradual erosion of other rights which began in this session of the Supreme Court...
...very act of revelation is a central feature in the gradual loosening of Communist strictures that Mikhail Gorbachev is bringing to the Soviet Union, as he grapples with the challenge of revamping the system without completely violating it -- and a stark contrast to the refusal of China's leadership to countenance the slightest openness...
...general's friends say he is tired of facing down the gringos, but even if he capitulates, there is little evidence that the defense forces plan to retire to the barracks. "For real democracy to take place in Panama," Moss warns, "it will be a long-term workout, a gradual weaning away of the military from direct power." To encourage that, the Bush Administration must enlist Latin American allies. Recourse to the big stick will only sour relations with the region...
...crimes of feminist rage and his grandson runs away and ends up sleeping in shopping malls. The extraterrestrials are staging a sort of slide show to explain how human art, society and psychology work. Their mix of sharp insights, off- center observations and occasional wrong guesses eerily parallels the gradual mental deformation of the afflicted man, while the device of narration allows Congdon to avoid prolonged melodramatics. The script benefited from Roberta Levitow's simple, fluid staging and from an able ensemble that alternated as aliens or the family and friends simply by donning or removing sunglasses...