Word: gradualist
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...Stalling on universal suffrage so far hasn't produced a popular backlash, in part because Hong Kongers seem to have faith in a gradualist approach. Although support for democracy hovers around 70%, almost half the elected officials are from pro-Beijing parties that advocate cooperation and incrementalism. Some Hong Kongers even question whether the special administrative region is ready for democracy. A common refrain: If "Long Hair," a Trotskyite pro-democracy legislator known for his long hair and Che T-shirts, can become the second most popular politician in the city, the people aren't ready to pick their...
...space "for other more moderate lawyers to become more vocal." But Mo Shaoping, a veteran defense lawyer, says Gao's political activities-such as hunger striking and signing petitions-may have spooked the authorities into tightening restrictions. Like many in the field, Mo is both a philosophical and tactical gradualist. "If you want to cook a frog, you can't just throw it into boiling water," he says. "If you do that, it just flies out of the pot. You have to start with cold water and turn up the heat slowly." Despite their differences in approach, Mo quickly accepted...
...believe we have to take this course step by step," he says. A senior White House official says that given Rafsanjani's conservative impulses, the U.S. will continue to "talk directly to the Iranian people" in hopes of strengthening popular opposition to the regime. Yet Rafsanjani's gradualist approach is finding a receptive audience among some young Iranians who look at Iraq and conclude that regime change isn't as easy as it sounds...
...referring to the U.S. as "the indispensable nation." Kerry's biographer, historian Douglas Brinkley, says, "Kerry is not a Wilsonian. He does not believe we have a moral mission to remake the world in our image." Whereas Bush talks about the "transformational power of liberty," Kerry is a gradualist. He pledged last week to take measures to support "modernizers" within nondemocratic countries rather than wage "reckless campaigns to impose democracy by force from the outside...
There's also some doubt that Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan can ride to the rescue with another rate cut. "He's a gradualist. Each little step is expected, and there's never any surprise, so cumulatively there's no impact on the psychology," argues Michael Murphy, editor of the California Technology Stock Letter. Last week the market was begging for an interest-rate cut beyond the half percentage point already factored in. The Fed cut rates twice in January a total of 1 percentage point...