Word: gradualism
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...previous week after receiving intelligence reports of heightened Soviet military activity in and near Poland. During a stop-over in Britain last week, Weinberger told reporters at Cottesmore Royal Air Force Base that Poland was already a victim of "invasion by osmosis," a process he described as the "gradual filtering in of additions to the two [Soviet] divisions that have been in Poland for a long time...
...Harvard does not take the high ground, it is effectively endorsing economic, social and political injustice in South Africa," Tsongas said, adding that he favors a gradual divestiture policy to give companies flexibility in promoting racial equality in that country...
Sacks is quick to disclaim personal credit for the institute and the advances in clinical education, claiming they have been gradual changes over the years, but Gary Bellow, professor of Law and head of the institute, says Sacks worked hard to establish the program and get faculty approval for it. "It wouldn't be here without him." Bellow adds...
...last week's program a commissioned work, Ausencias, by Venezuelan Alvaro Cordero-Saldivia, was forgettable. It is a busy, dense-textured work that seeks to combine elements of Afro-American music with academic compositional procedures-what the composer calls "a gradual unfolding of two musics that have a totally contrasting profile." Yet the whole proved less than the sum of its parts...
...ailing leader may have reached its apogee at the congress. But his iron grip on the helm may doom the Kremlin to a nasty power struggle after his passing. "They are postponing the day of succession to the point that it will now be a blowup, rather than a gradual shift," predicts William Hyland of Georgetown's Center for Strategic and International Studies...