Word: graduality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Griffin says the proposal for a committee wasseen as too gradual and too incremental. "We wererearranging the balance of power, based on ournotion that to struggle was noble...
...Clinton in an effort to fend off those in Congress who want to encroach on the Fed's autonomy. At the same time, he has tried to satisfy the inflation hawks inside the Fed. The result, say some critics, is that his approach to fighting inflation has been too gradual. Instead of soothing the markets, the Fed's modest one-quarter-point rate increases in February and March simply fueled ) suspicions that more rate hikes were on the way. While no central bank official has publicly criticized Greenspan, one Fed watcher asserts, "I have found by talking to regional Federal...
...Clinton Administration has decided a gradual move from purely diplomatic to economic and military pressures is still the best response. That is the only way the Security Council might earn backing from China if sanctions are needed later. Last week the U.S. strained to avoid appearing bellicose. The Patriot batteries are being shipped to South Korea rather than flown. No date has been set for the renewed Team Spirit exercise. The Security Council resolution Washington is drafting is expected only to admonish North Korea to comply with treaty terms and to warn that sanctions might be imposed later...
...distaste. "If I could like that Chernin, that woman I was twenty years ago, if it were easy, there wouldn't be this gap that has grown between us. There would be an enduring I, a continuity. Something must have happened along the way, a wrenching more than a gradual change, splitting us off from each other. She would be outraged to think of me, her biographer...
...contains vivid accounts, based on individual case histories, of death's major causes, from accidents to Alzheimer's to AIDS. One of Nuland's case histories involves a drug addict and AIDS victim he calls Ishmael Garcia. With chilling clarity, the author describes Garcia's gradual and painful "descent into the valley of fever and incoherence" via pneumonia, meningitis and lymphoma of the brain. As he lay dying, Garcia was taking 14 experimental medications, none of which slowed what Nuland calls "a jet- propelled pestilence." Death certificates require that attending doctors state a cause; Nuland points out that for most...