Word: gradualism
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...This gradual transformation of the Harvard campus into a wildlife reserve is all part of what Gary D. Alpert, an entomologist with the Harvard Environmental Health and Safety Department, refers to as "the nature-fication of Harvard...
...energy and intellect to serving others. His uncompromising and unrelenting insistence on the end of de jure white supremacy, coupled with the political savvy necessary to obtain results, led to one of the most significant political and social events in modern world history: the South African government's gradual abolition of apartheid...
...princes mostly off limits, the press has grown fidgety on the subject of Charles' consort. Despite widespread sentiment at this time last year that the public would never accept, at Charles' side, the woman Diana once dubbed the "Rottweiler," Camilla and Charles appear to be engaged in a gradual coming-out process--which is not causing much distress to anyone. Not only has Camilla officially met William and Harry; the couple are also "all but living together" at St. James's Palace, according to a piece in the Daily Mail by Diana's good friend Richard Kay. The pair also...
...after three decades of declines or stagnation, as labor shortages force employers to pay premiums to hire and retain workers. "Wealth is the icing on the cake, but it's wages that bake the cake," says Diane Swonk, deputy chief economist at the bank First Chicago NBD. These gradual earnings gains might signal an increase in inflation, because compensation makes up the bulk of most employers' expenses. But the glory of the economy today is its remarkable balance. While labor costs are indeed rising, they are largely offset by the growing productivity of American workers, who are among the most...
...their point is nor readily apparent, become increasingly lucid as the mystery unravels. Cavalcades of transient images fill three or four pages at a time and then vanish, but their aftereffects are less ephemeral. The constant aggregation of detail that comes with passing years explains exactly the boy's gradual understanding of his tortured familial history...