Word: graduality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...being not only the most aggressively racist of all the right-wing groups but also the most violent. At the root of its militancy is what it terms the swart gevaar, or black threat, combined with a conviction that reforms during the past decade have amounted to a gradual capitulation to communist-inspired black domination...
...Translation: if Yeltsin yields too much, too fast to Kiev, he will be swept away by a coalition of demagogues bent on exploiting the hardships of the citizenry and die-hard believers in the old union. To be peaceful, a divorce between Kiev and Moscow will have to be gradual...
...attack dog. . . . I can't understand it. I myself am not a racist and I'm also a person of minority." A few paragraphs later, N.H. asks bluntly, "Is my dog racist?" De Jong ensures N.H. that "your dog is by no means a racist," and suggests that "gradual positive exposure to people you know who are black or Hispanic will probably change your dog's behavior." How Important? 5 How Pathetic? 2 A tour de force. De Jong not only solves N.H.'s problem, but also offers a paradigm for the reeducation of would-be racists throughout the world...
HUNGARY. Former boss Janos Kadar's "goulash communism" allowed some privatization of industry (15% by 1989) and considerable self-management by state-owned enterprises. So when communism was overthrown, the new government saw no need for shock treatment; officials could institute a more gradual process of lifting price controls and reducing or eliminating subsidies. As a result, Hungary has experienced the smallest drop in production in Eastern Europe (6.5% last year) and the lowest inflation (34% for all 1991, about a third of that at year's end). Hungary has been especially successful in attracting foreign investment; it has formed...
Moose were plentiful in New England until white settlers replaced their thick forest habitats with farms. But laws protecting the animals, and the gradual reforestation of the area, have spawned the comeback...