Word: gradualism
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While once it was possible to live one's entire life in New England speaking French, today's community is trying to save its culture and prevent a gradual loss of its language. The descendants of those Quebecers who had moved to the United States from 1860 to 1930 in search of employment are afraid of cultural extinction...
...Hanselman, and many administrators, say the change will be gradual, if it happens...
Sung-Joo said the country should follow the path of gradual economic transformation accompanied by consistency with cultural and philosophical heritage...
With things so quiet in the capital, the returnees allow themselves to hope for a gradual return to normality. Still, Rwandans are well aware of their bloody past, and they have doubts. Munyanziza's wife Julie points to two paintings still hanging on her living-room wall: one shows a man climbing up a tree as a crocodile and a lion attack him; the other shows the same man running away in fear from the lion and the crocodile, while a snake winds down the tree where he had sought refuge. "They are a souvenir of all the problems...
...polls on Aug. 21, eager to register their complaints about corruption, crime, injustice to the poor, unemployment and unfulfilled government promises of a better standard of living. The January uprising by peasants in Chiapas, the assassination of the ruling party's presidential candidate in March, a gradual downturn in the economy, and an outburst of drug shootings and kidnappings have convinced a large segment of Mexico's people that their society needs serious repair. Just a month ago, they appeared to resent the failures of the Salinas government so bitterly that many were ready to turn out his Institutional Revolutionary...