Word: gradualism
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...There is no mystery. The American penal system is traditionally unresponsive. Prisoners' grievances often go ignored until some act of violence, or even death, results. For example, overcrowding, one of the constantly reappearing ingredients that lead to violence, does not develop overnight, but is a gradual process...
...intelligence are everywhere in evidence. British Director Michael Apted (Agatha) captures both the poverty and pride of the young Loretta's Appalachian homestead without resorting to Hollywood sentimentality or glamorization. Tom Rickman's script uses intimate, telling details as it enthusiastically describes the heroine's gradual transformation from 13-year-old hillbilly bride to Nashville superstar. The cast, especially Sissy Spacek as Lynn -the best role of her career -is always winning...
...Moede of Princeton, N.J., the COCU general secretary, the separate denominations will ratify a polished-up version of the pacts on doctrine and ministries by 1986, then formally recognize one another's members and clergy by the end of the decade. Those steps may be followed by gradual amalgamation of the churches and their multifarious agencies, which Moede thinks might take 40 years...
Government authorities readily labelled all such opposition as the work of the "Christian left." Certain sisters do talk of "the proper political analysis" and "liberated areas" under the control of Communist insurgents. Yet the clergy's gradual but wholesale antigovernment shift over the past few months rebuts the charge. The weather vane of the change in sentiment is Sin himself. A political loner advised by a select group of businessmen and ex-Supreme Court Justices, Sin has moved away from his "critical collaboration" with Marcos. Now he raises directly questions about Marcos's health and the choice of his successor...
Another potential outcome is a takeover, swift or gradual, by younger clergymen in alliance with such Western-educated leaders as Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh. A government composed of those forces would be less fanatical than the Ayatullah but still very hard-line anti-U.S. Another possibility, considered by some analysts to be the most likely, would be an eventual confrontation between Khomeini's religious establishment and members of the urban upper and middle classes, who applaud the nationalistic goals of the revolution but chafe under rigid enforcement of Islamic law?and have the brains to mount an effective opposition...