Word: gradualism
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...Gradual tax increases to boost the price of domestic oil (roughly $8 a barrel) to that of imported oil, which is now about $14.50 a barrel...
...doctor and his patient shared an interest in history and literature and together traveled 140,000 miles to strategy conferences during World War II. Moran's Churchill ... The Struggle for Survival, 1940-65, an account of Sir Winston's fight against pneumonia, two strokes and gradual senescence, stirred the ire of Churchill's family and the British Medical Association...
...Saturday deliveries would save the Postal Service $412 million a year. The commission will also recommend further mechanization of mail handling to save $134 million annually, and suggest other improvements in management and productivity that would save $78 mil lion. Total savings: $624 million annually. Also proposed is the gradual elimination of subsidized postal rates for nonprofit organizations...
...physical descriptions of his characters' appearances that revealed both their psychological make-up and social class. "The web of details" in Balzac's Paris, Sennett writes, "is constructed such that general forces have a meaning only as they can be reflected in individual cases." But instead of showing the gradual dominance of personality in the public realm, Sennett shifts the scene abruptly--to the concert hall where Paganini made his violin performances more riveting than the music itself, to the barricades of 1848 where Lamartine made his frequent appearances before the workers more inspiring than his policies...
...said that the movement toward an equal male-female ratio will be "gradual, maybe a percentage point a year. It'll take a couple more years for us to get a 1.5-to-1 ratio and it will probably level off there...