Word: graduall
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...subject could not be more serious: an actor's gradual betrayal of political, not to mention moral, principle in return for professional advancement in Nazi Germany. The style could not be more surprising. One has come to expect material of this kind to be set forth in a tone of grim and stately foreboding. Instead, Mephisto, a Hungarian-German coproduction that richly deserved its Oscar as this year's Best Foreign Film, moves with a feverish back-staginess, a rushing, unbalancing energy that not only freshens one's historical imagination but finally forces the viewer to turn...
...does a museum build upon a scholarly foundation? According to Cross, it is a gradual, almost organic process. A small department builds a scholarly reputation through hard work, both in publishing and in teaching. It attracts more graduate students, who eventually win teaching positions at other institutions, and more prestige falls to the department. Finally, the administration realizes what is happening and creates even more junior and senior faculty positions...
...inheritor of El Salvador's accumulated political and economic woes. Among the reforms that Duarte sponsors are the nationalization of local banks, the continuation of the land reform that has expropriated the country's largest agricultural estates and turned them into peasant cooperatives, and a gradual purging of human rights violators from El Salvador's 22,000-member security forces...
...West and a Japanese sneak attack in the East, but as World War I did, with a combination of bumbling, inadvertence, events getting out of control and just plain bad luck. Says he: "If there is ever a nuclear war, it will be like August 1914?a gradual losing of control. There would be rival alerts, no one backing down, no one wanting to fight, but a mounting confrontation that could lead to fighting...
...support for SWAPO. The guerrillas have been waging a bush war for 15 years to win independence for Namibia, or South West Africa, a territory still administered by South Africa in defiance of United Nations resolutions. According to the South Africans, the latest raid was a response to the gradual stockpiling of mostly Soviet arms and equipment to replace those lost in previous South African forays. Among the spoils: 90 Soviet-designed AK-47 assault rifles, several SA-7 missiles and hundreds of grenades and land mines. In addition, the South Africans captured a large cache of foodstuffs, including tins...