Word: gradualism
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...notification laws, waiting periods, restrictions on late-term abortions: The strategy was to chip away at Roe to try to shrink it, change its shape, and over time promote a ?culture of life? that would view abortion less as a right than a tragedy, perhaps eventually a crime. That gradual approach requires a certain level of hypocrisy-or at least a willing suspension of moral belief-because if you truly equate abortion with murder, it?s hard to settle for slowing it down rather than stopping it altogether, right away: the Purist approach...
...meetings of all faculties, usually listened when they voiced their concerns and tolerated their digressions. Eliot observed: “The Faculty is a ruminating animal, chewing a cud a long time, slowly bringing it into a digestible condition; then comes the process of assimilation which is gradual and invisible, so that bystanders do not perceive the growth and expansion of the animal...
...when the alterations affect students’ day-to-day lives. As Wisse oddly attests, much of the student body strongly supported Summers throughout his saga even though he endeavored to shake up the entire University. Nevertheless, even in this situation, the changes supported by students were measured and gradual; Summers’ initiatives, such as the new Curricular Review and Allston planning, were long-term and much-debated transformations, not quick or erratic fixes...
...Though Summers only resigned only yesterday, his loss, in some sense, has been more gradual. His initiatives, by and large, have been in a rut for the greater part of the last year. It has become increasingly apparent over the last week that Summers’ departure was inevitable. Whether it was a conspicuous lack of support from the Harvard Corporation amidst the latest Faculty flurry or, more likely, a worn president, his vigor faded, no longer willing to defend himself against the barbs of an uncompromising segment of the Faculty, Summers could no longer effectively make progress...
...delivered with Murdoch's characteristic humanity and obscure wit - it's still thinking music, so long as you think while you dance. And the band has never remained static. When the late bbc DJ John Peel described their last Glastonbury Festival performance as "surprisingly muscular," he was observing the gradual transformation of a band often relegated to the "twee" genre - music so light and self-referential that it almost shattered upon listening - of the late '80s. The surprise choice of Trevor Horn (the ex-Buggle who also produced Frankie Goes to Hollywood and t.A.T.u.) as producer on the last album...