Word: gradualist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...advanced technological power of the West, these statesmen sought ways to graft elements of foreign technology and organizational skills onto their own economic and political infrastructure, so that they could achieve the delicate task of strengthening their country rather than undermining it from within. This selective and gradualist approach allowed China to keep at least a measure of faith that it was somehow preserving its own inner value system even while using the West in a host of developing areas. During this 19th century period--as during the 1980s and into the present--the effects of this attempt...
There are no half steps in Sachs' world. He says that a gradualist approach of introducing limited market reforms into a centralized system, as Gorbachev tried for years, is doomed to failure. Sachs frequently cites the old Russian maxim that you cannot cross a chasm in two jumps...
...such a gradualist, spoon-fed approach to the number of Holocaust victims cannot enhance understanding of the human tragedy of the Holocaust. If the point is really to remember life, not numbers, why not remember all life? Eleven million will "click," just like six million, if it really stands for people, not Arabic numerals...