Word: gradualness
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...hundred years of American history have demonstrated how flexible the Constitution is, but Philip Morris is stretching it way out of shape. There is nothing even remotely Constitutional about killing your fellow citizens. If euthnasia (killing people in accordance with their wishes) is a slippery judicial question, then the gradual murder of ignorant victims--be they smokers or non-smokers exposed to other people's smoke--hasn't a snowball's chance in hell of finding refuge in the Constitution...
...same resistance to change is evident today. People are rarely willing to change immediately from one extreme to another. So when society does change from one extreme to another, it will occcur in small, gradual steps. Each of the two extremes is logically consistent--one is completely right and the other completely wrong--which means that anything in between will involve some degree of hypocrisy...
...lived in a world unafraid of drastic change, there would be no need for gradual change, and therefore no need for hypocritical in-betweens. The real world has shown me that this is not the case...
...growing impatience with Israel on Capitol Hill is reflected in a gradual but perceptible ebbing in the power of the so-called Jewish lobby. "Today the great and grievous fright about AIPAC is gone," says a high-ranking staff member of the House subcommittee on Middle Eastern affairs. "There is a real sense of sorrow up here at what's become of Israel, that it's been reduced to bashing Palestinians and producing leaders like Shamir and Sharon." Such sentiments -- shocking at first hearing when one considers that their source is a politician who has worked closely with Jewish leaders...
Because issues surrounding the war are so emotionally charged even now, some people counsel continued caution in dealing with the government of Vietnam. "Any improvement has to be gradual," says Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona, who spent 5 1/2 years in a North Vietnamese prison after his Navy attack bomber was shot down over Hanoi in 1967. "Below the surface, there is a very strong anti-Vietnamese feeling. When you get down to the V.F.W. halls, the American Legion halls, these people still have the feeling that the U.S. was damaged and humiliated in that conflict." Nonetheless, says McCain...