Word: graduall
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...feeling all the crotchets of that stage of life. Its youthful bounce is now just a memory, and its progress is marked more by caution than boldness. Its future looks unexcitingly predictable at best, a little worrisome at worst: relatively modest gains in production, a very gradual reduction of high unemployment, continuation of a distressing but not immediately dangerous inflation rate...
Schwartz believes "the precedent to educational reform in the city of Boston is political reform." But even with an unresponsive school committee unlikely to improve in this November's election, gradual change has begun. Garrity's comprehensive court order, which some feel did not go far enough, forced desegregation, affirmative action and educational innovations onto a resisting system. In the short run it has produced violence and a significant enrollment drop but it has brought the system's mediocrity to the forefront of people's minds. It will take years to change the system but at least now, there...
Correspondent Rudolph Rauch III has spent long days talking with Lance's former associates in Atlanta. Says he: "There has been a gradual slide in the willingness of sources to talk on the record-or, in some cases, to talk...
...create disorder have learned their lesson. We are going back to normal." That statement by a ranking Manila official typifies a new mood in the Philippines. After five years of martial law ostensibly imposed to restore order against terrorism and other political violence, some Filipinos are predicting a gradual return to constitutional government. Others warn that such optimism is unjustified...
They eventually got that bulletin. In 1974 Sulzberger extracted an agreement from his printers to allow gradual automation in return for lifetime job security for those then working. A born tinkerer, Sulzberger threw himself into the task of replacing the Times's clacking linotypes and other antiquated production contraptions with computerized equipment. "You just wouldn't believe it," says Sulzberger of the pre-electronic days. "The composing-room staff used to measure the amount of classified ads with a string...