Word: gradualism
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During his gradual and thorough exploration of every aspect of theater, he picks up new acquaintances and new ambitions...
...coming out with its true colors." Thus was Opposition Leader Benazir Bhutto, 33, the popular daughter of the late Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, arrested in a sudden return of repression by President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq. It was a backward step after what had seemed like a gradual revival of democracy in Pakistan this year...
...issue was the Chirac Cabinet's proposed decree calling for the gradual denationalization of 65 large, state-owned companies and banks, including the Elf Aquitaine oil trust, the Banque Nationale de Paris, the country's largest, and the telecommunications giant Compagnie Generale d'Electricite. The privatization plan involves enterprises worth about $40 billion...
...divestment, if it ever occurs, will be a slow, gradual process. The first steps must be taken before the final step can be seriously considered. Bok has it in his power to make one of those essential first steps and he chooses not to. Without having made the choice to divest what monies he controls, how can Bok's call for sanctions be believable? How can his outraged telegrams, his signature on letters and petitions, be read as anything but empty words...
...same league as high- tech snooping devices that might require a search warrant. The majority's course worried Lewis Powell, who spoke for the dissenters in both cases. The failure to protect privacy rights, he said in the Dow decision, "will permit their gradual decay as technology advances...