Word: gradualism
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...problem of programs' overextending their financial bases continued throughout the 1970s, until Johnson, who began his tenure in 1979, engineered a gradual turnaround of the organization...
...will also continue our efforts to build a stable, undivided Europe. NATO's Partnership for Peace, which Russia has joined, has begun to unite the continent. NATO's steady, gradual enlargement will continue. We will also encourage a strong partnership between Russia and NATO, building on our cooperation in Bosnia. The door to European integration is open to Russia; it must choose not to isolate itself...
...what it used to be. Evangelicals have never been a single church with a hierarchy, explains Mark Noll, director of the Institute for Evangelical Studies at Illinois' Wheaton College, but rather "a network of networks." During his extended prime, Billy spoke for many of these. If his gradual journey from a narrowly exclusive vision of Christianity to the embrace of almost anybody willing to accept Jesus alienated the movement's Fundamentalist wing, it brought untold numbers into the fold. It resonated particularly well during the prosperous post-World War II years, with the emphasis on American unity...
...have started in the end of March, but February's string of suicide bombings has delayed the process. Peres has vowed to begin the withdrawal, agreed to in the Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement, before the election. PLO leader Yaser Arafat, however, said he would be happy with a gradual approach beginning after the election, sources told the Jersalem Post. Hebron is the last West Bank city under Israeli control, and the only place in theWest Bank where Jews and Arabs live in such close proximity. About 450 Jewish settlers live in six enclaves in the city of 94,000 Palestinians...
...Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's government are likely behind the incident. Sunday's blast follows a string of passenger bus explosions in Lahore during the last year. Many of these acts have been attributed to internal sectarian rivalry, says Hasnain: "In last few months, there has been a gradual increase of pressure on Bhutto's government. Militant groups opposed to Bhutto choose to target passenger busses because they can then say her government has failed to maintain law and order...