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...leaders control the governments of Britain, West Germany, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Luxembourg, Norway, The Netherlands, Portugal?to cite only European examples. (Sweden's Social Democrats, after 44 years in power, were defeated in 1976 by a narrow margin.) Social democracy accepts a multiparty political system and believes in gradual, peaceful means of reaching its socialist goals. In practical terms, this has meant that social democrats have concentrated more on alleviating what they regard as hardships created by capitalist economies (unemployment, salary and wage inequities) than on directly restructuring societies according to a collectivist blueprint...
Immediately, there might be an increase in terrorism because when the Marxists find that they have lost out, I think they'll try to vent their spleen on everything in sight. Our assessment is, however, that once the agreement is made, there will be a gradual winding down and that in time terrorism will wither away. We are ready for an intensified war because it is always a possibility. If it does intensify, it will not take us by surprise...
Advocates of bilingualism contend that the programs make foreign-born students feel welcome in American society and decrease staggering dropout rates. (For Puerto Rican students in Chicago, the dropout rate runs about 70% a year, compared with 35% overall.) Moreover, they argue, students learn better through a gradual transition into English. That argument, however, has not been proved. A 1977 nationwide study of 150 schools and 11,500 students, conducted by the American Institute for Research in Palo Alto, Calif., found that bilingual programs helped children learn such subjects as math...
...Washington announcement a) did not promise any particular level of intervention, and b) hinted that the U.S. will not attempt to keep the dollar above any specified floor price-but will merely try to "reestablish order" on the exchanges. That would seem to leave room for a continued, though gradual, decline...
...geology. Under a $1.4 million program conducted jointly by the National Geodetic Survey, the U.S. Geological Survey and local authorities, 36 teams of specialists are fanning across Southern California with levels, gravity meters and other exotic scientific gear for three months of intensive measuring. Their mission: to study the gradual-and extremely puzzling-elevation of a large region centered around the small town of Palmdale (pop. 12,800) that has taken place recently in this seismically active area...