Word: gradualism
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...since its philosophy calls for equal opportunity--but not reverse discrimination or quota systems, which is why it calls for passage of the ERA but an end to affirmative action programs. While the Libertarians and their candidate for president, George McBride, call for more alternative educational institutions and a gradual phasing out of government in education, they also call--unlike their mentor, Mill--for an end to compulsory education...
...elevation of Hua Kuo-feng to the chairmanship of the Chinese Communist Party should lead to a gradual improvement of Chinese relations with the Soviet Union, perhaps at the expense of the United States, Ross G. Terrill, associate professor of Government, told a Kirkland House audience last night...
...ideas on monetarism. Friedman's argument, laid out in his 1963 work, A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960, co-authored with Anna Schwartz, is that to bring about stability-steady expansion in jobs and incomes without flaring inflation-Government policymakers need only to pursue a gradual, controlled growth in the money supplied by the Federal Reserve. By reducing the nation's money supply in the 1930s, Friedman argues, the Federal Reserve Board caused a recession to turn into the Great Depression...
...Smith's white countrymen hold him responsible for what is happening to Rhodesia. "There is a widespread feeling," says a local mining executive, "that, in retrospect, UDI was a waste of time, money and lives. If we had settled for a gradual transition eleven years ago and Smith had started to train black successors back then, we would not face such a problem now." But a few hardliners, like Leonard Idensohn, who heads the small, far-right Rhodesia National Party, criticize him for giving in now. "Smith and his 49 traitors in Parliament have sold us down the river," says...
...architects of a spreading and insensitive bureaucracy is probably what led many young Swedes to become relatively conservative and thus vote, as they did last week, against the socialists. Fear of further concentration of power underlay another key campaign issue: the opposition to a labor union scheme for the gradual transfer of control to the unions of all private enterprises...