Word: gradualism
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...whipping inflation has been high. Industrial production in January was down 15% from the year before-the biggest monthly drop in decades-and the government reports that more than 1.2 million Italians are out of jobs. Last week, in a wary reversal, the government moved to a policy of gradual stimulation...
Kissinger, in spite of his recent failure, would still like to continue pursuing the gradual method, since it keeps all the keys in his pocket. The resumption of the Geneva talks, which appear to be the next step, make the Soviet Union a central factor in any settlement. So, as Sadat threatens Kissinger with a new alliance with the Soviets, via the opening of the canal, Kissinger attempts to shift the blame for the failure of the Sinai talks on the Israelis, even though the sacrifices asked of them were beyond reason...
...population explosion, energy-of whose implications Americans are still only partly aware. To help solve these, as the world's strongest economic power and technological leader, the U.S. must make major contributions. Moreover, this effort, like all foreign policy efforts, must begin at home. It will require the gradual rebuilding of a national consensus and perhaps the rediscovery of economic growth. This is not easy to ask at a time of domestic recession and at the moment when so many other countries suspect any American motive. But it must be done, for America's own sake and that...
...GRADUAL CHANGE is a tradition in which Harvard prides itself, the still uncompleted process of integrating women into the undergraduate community most certainly exemplifies all the University's magnificence and splendor...
...ideas of quotas and artificially engineered student bodies were rejected by the committee when there finally came a chance to put these "tools" to constructive use: instead of recommending equal access admissions as a gradual means of lowering the male-female ratio, the Strauch Committee should have called on the College to immediately institute 1 to 1 admissions as the best way to prepare for a viable equal access policy within several years. By accepting equal numbers of men and women to the Class of 1980, the University could demonstrate its serious commitment to educating men and women...