Word: gradualism
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...disappearance is the new sign on the corner of Garden and Shepherd Streets. Whereas the old one proclaimed, “The Radcliffe Quadrangle,” the sign erected this fall merely reads “The Quadrangle.” The name change is indicative of the gradual erasure of Radcliffe, which precipitates declining student awareness of the long history of women at Harvard...
...college-time scheduling lie ahead. This need to make contact before departure is all the more acute on consideration of how the college year actually finishes. It does not grind to a sudden and well-defined halt, but instead peters out, as variable exam schedules drain dorms in a gradual trickle. It’s a case of now you see it, now you don’t, completely different from the coordinated communal closure of the high school year and endowing the rites of spring time socializing with an added sense of urgency...
...then finals appear on the horizon, making spring a time not for regeneration but rather regurgitation, as classes in which the lectures have long ceased to be an integral part of weekly schedules come back for the haunting. The most disheartening part of this cycle must surely be the gradual deterioration of carefully-chosen notebooks (I can’t be the only one who insists on color-coordinating in some oblique yet ingenious way to match the subject matter of the class) now a shadow of their former shiny selves, not even fit to serve as breakfast...
...That was when Hughes did the unimaginable in Washington by resigning as the President's closest adviser so she could move her unhappy family back home to Austin. She has continued to advise the President on an ad hoc, part-time basis. Now she has begun a gradual re-entry into the whirlwind of full-time presidential politics. Her first conspicuous move is the launch this week of Ten Minutes from Normal, a memoir of a decade spent as George W. Bush's spokeswoman and alter ego. For the White House, the blitz of publicity accompanying the book's publication...
...existence of stem cells in mice, however, could indicate that menopause, or “mouse-opause,” as Tilly calls it, results not from the death of eggs, but from the gradual death of germ stem cells which produce these eggs...