Word: gradualness
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...attack dog. . . . I can't understand it. I myself am not a racist and I'm also a person of minority." A few paragraphs later, N.H. asks bluntly, "Is my dog racist?" De Jong ensures N.H. that "your dog is by no means a racist," and suggests that "gradual positive exposure to people you know who are black or Hispanic will probably change your dog's behavior." How Important? 5 How Pathetic? 2 A tour de force. De Jong not only solves N.H.'s problem, but also offers a paradigm for the reeducation of would-be racists throughout the world...
HUNGARY. Former boss Janos Kadar's "goulash communism" allowed some privatization of industry (15% by 1989) and considerable self-management by state-owned enterprises. So when communism was overthrown, the new government saw no need for shock treatment; officials could institute a more gradual process of lifting price controls and reducing or eliminating subsidies. As a result, Hungary has experienced the smallest drop in production in Eastern Europe (6.5% last year) and the lowest inflation (34% for all 1991, about a third of that at year's end). Hungary has been especially successful in attracting foreign investment; it has formed...
Moose were plentiful in New England until white settlers replaced their thick forest habitats with farms. But laws protecting the animals, and the gradual reforestation of the area, have spawned the comeback...
...limits the richness of O'Neil's text in two ways. By refusing to let the truths develop out of illusions, Gammons sacrifices O'Neil's "happy family" setup of the first act that universalizes the Tyrones and invites the audience to identify with them. Because no process of gradual realization remains to develop the plot sequence, Gammons's versions seems like a series of incidents strung together but not causally related--gone is the sense of crescendo in the final...
...second factor is the gradual improvement of the Crimson's game after terrible showings against Cornell and Yale...