Word: gradualness
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...November ballot, would be state-sponsored suicide, a move that would cut an estimated $2 billion in revenue from the Massachusetts budget. Supporters say Silber, now on leave as president of Boston University, can use his well-honed administrative skills to trim the $2 billion in a more gradual and humane...
...voters reject the petition, the legislature will have leverage to reorganize expensive state accounts and make gradual, sensible cuts in the budget, LoPresti said. If voters embrace the measure on the November ballot, LoPresti said legislators are unsure what will happen...
...Prime Minister had barely finished explaining his new "moderate- radical' ' program for a gradual, state-regulated move toward a market economy when his critics began sounding off. "I listened, and can't understand what has been presented to us," snapped radical Leningrad Mayor Anatoli Sobchak. "Is this a government program or criticism of the alternative plan that we have yet to hear?" Armenian Deputy Genrikh Igityan was even more brutal. "I have sympathy with you," he said, tvurning to Ryzhkov, "but are you capable of bringing this country out of crisis?" Ryzhkov, said worker Leonid Sukhov, would "certainly have...
With that announcement, the drive for political change in South Africa took on fresh life. Following 15 hours of talks last week between delegations led by Mandela and President F.W. de Klerk, the Pretoria government agreed to the gradual release of as many as 1,500 political prisoners and the return of more than 20,000 political exiles. Both sides have now met most of the conditions each had demanded before formal negotiations over a new constitution could begin. Challenged by militant followers who thought Mandela gave away too much for too little, A.N.C. officials said they felt compelled...
...result is desertification, a gradual conversion of marginal land into wasteland. This process is often driven by population pressures, which force people to work lands unsuitable for agriculture. In sub-Saharan Africa, for instance, settlers move into an area when it is wet and green, and then stay and remove the ground cover when the inevitable drought returns. Without a green barrier to stop them, sand dunes march inexorably forward...