Word: gradualism
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...metalworks and mines in Ciudad Guayana, 300,000 people, many of them workers, greeted John Paul warmly when he said, "How long will the men of the Third World have to support unjustly the primacy of economic processes over inviolable human rights?" In Quito, Ecuador, he called for the "gradual disappearance of the intolerable abyss" between rich and poor, and appealed for land reform and medical and old-age protection for workers. At mountainous Latacunga, Ecuador, he met 250,000 members of deprived indigenous tribes, who greeted him with painted faces amid a din of pipes and drums. The Pope...
Japan's leaders recognize the need to open up their economy to more foreign goods. The process, though, will be gradual. In the meantime, the Japanese will continue to accumulate trade surpluses and scout around the world for ways to invest their treasure trove both productively and profitably...
...average weight, not on each rower's maximum weight which meant," says Dietz, "that sometimes one had to pick boats by weight and not by skill." The new system, she adds, "not only allows for people to know in advance what they have to weight but encourages slow and gradual weight loss...
...possible disaster at any time," he said. By applying the lessons learned from Barney Clark, DeVries hopes that certain earlier calamities can be avoided. For example, because Clark's brain seizures were attributed to the sudden increase in blood circulation following surgery, doctors are taking a more gradual approach to increasing Schroeder's heart rate. In addition, since one of the valves used in Clark's heart broke two weeks after the heart was implanted, Schroeder's heart contains valves of a different make, which, DeVries says, are "substantially stronger...
...right. Throughout Martin's gradual self-transformation from an impudent reporter into a stately personage, she has always maintained a sharp division between her private and public lives. There is no business entertaining at her handsome Georgian brick home near the Washington zoo (a hired couple do the housework), and when she does go out socially, it is usually a family expedition to the theater or a small dinner with friends. "As a rule, I only go to the kind of thing I give," she says, "a dinner where everyone sits down and has real conversation." The seating...