Word: graduality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while Rudenstine's summer vacation will soon pass, Harvard's attention to the area will not. Sorenson says she anticipates a gradual, long-term build-up of Harvard's ties to the region...
First, along with then-Secretary of the Treasury Lloyd Bentsen, he proposed a deficit reduction package early in the first term of the Clinton Administration which Levy says contributed significantly to the latest period of gradual, low-inflation growth...
...says a less gradual transition would have made the integration more complete. Restrictive quotas prevented more than a set number of women from transferring into each House...
...could manage a transition. The President has to contend with skeptical students, thousands of whom gathered at the Parliament building and vowed not to leave unless he steps down at once. For the students -- still reeling after snipers gunned down six of their own last week -- promises of a gradual transfer of power simply aren't good enough: Suharto must go, and he must go now. With a large demonstration set for Wednesday, and with students promising not to leave the Parliament building, it's shaping up to be an interesting 24 hours...
...vague; the future was tomorrow's sunrise, the next harvest, the coming winter or the inevitability of death. The more distant future belonged to the realm of religion. The modern concept of the future did not begin to develop until the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance, with the gradual consolidation of calendars, the spread of clocks and the stirrings of new forces. Both science and commerce needed to anticipate things, whether a chemical reaction or the expiration of contracts...