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...campaign, De Mita declared that the party no longer had any ideological objection to the Communists as a democratic alternative. Berlinguer, he noted, had broken with Moscow over Poland and accepted Italy's membership in NATO. The Communists, moreover, were widely perceived to be entering a period of gradual decline. With a minimized menace on the left, anti-Communist voters who had once turned to the Christian Democrats felt free to scatter their votes to other parties...
...extensive study of the problems plaguing the $2.4 million facility which was built in 1978, and kept the Q-RAC closed through the fall. Weather problems delayed the study for several weeks, but officials finally determined in early November that the University should repair the facility on a gradual plan, until refurbishing is completed next fall...
...Harvard's gradual march from national to international prominence, the most publicized initial step may have been its advisory links with the Third-World...
...moralism, the sloppy idealism of youth. Some of the conservative members of the Committee knew only the language of cost-benefit analysis. In their strictly utilitarian calculations secure profits often weighed equally with considerations of simple justice. Other conservative members favored casting the issue in terms of revolution versus gradual change. Debates on the ACSR, then, often became fruitless clashes between incompatible moral jargons...
Joblessness has a similar ripple effect. The greatest source of stress is not the actual loss of the job but rather the gradual domestic and psychological changes it imposes. These can be devastating, says Sociologist M. Harvey Brenner, professor of health services administration at Johns Hopkins. Brenner has found that over a period of about 25 years beginning in the late 1940s, for each 1% increase in the national unemployment rate, there were 1.9% more U.S. deaths from heart disease and cirrhosis, 4.1% more suicides, and an upturn in the number of first-time admissions to state mental health facilities...