Word: gradualness
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...time, she was known as arrogant and overbearing, with above-average narcissism and self-regard even for a young actress. But over time and with a few flops under her belt, she was supposed to have mellowed. "Adorable," "charming" are the words she uses to describe her gradual transformation...
...within. Every other major democracy educates its children in public schools, they say, so why should the U.S. rely on entrepreneurs? Schmidt's reply: "We need the freedom to try to create new conceptions on a completely clean slate, without the constraints of inherited institutions. I don't think gradual reform is likely to produce the improvements the country desperately needs...
...Have a lot of discussions with your staff andwith your faculty, and work through these thingsin as gradual a way as possible," Gotwalssuggests. "Be very concerned and careful aboutmaking sure that no one really gets hurt...
...conservative mistrust of dominant cultural institutions extends from popular culture to academia. William F. Buckley Jr.'s first book was God and Man at Yale. In it Buckley posited the gradual takeover of the academy by mealy-mouthed liberals indifferent, and even hostile, to religion and the cultural importance of religion in Western culture, particularly in shaping conceptions of individual rights...
Marialisa Calta, a freelance writer working on a story about trends in college food, planned her first stop to coincide with yesterday's event, which marked the beginning both of spring-time and of the dining halls' gradual shift to lighter, warm weather foods...