Word: gradualness
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...American women, Hite has concluded that they are fed up with the male of the species. "What is going on right now in the minds of women is a large-scale cultural revolution," writes Hite. "Over and over, women of all ages express their increasing emotional frustration and gradual disillusionment with their personal relationships with...
...letter to Jefferson in 1788, Madison expressed another danger inherent in a bill of rights--that it would be interpreted statically, preventing the gradual expansion of people's rights with the passage of time. As a result, the rights of future generations likely would be constrained by the stinginess of past ones. "A positive declaration of some of the most essential rights," he felt, "could not be obtained in the requisite lattitude." Far better to avoid specific guarantees and let rights evolve with the passage of time. For a bill of rights would in essence be cannon fodder for people...
...military presence in the gulf in order to deter Iranian action, it was an entirely misplaced decision," says Group Captain David Bolton, director of the British government-funded Royal United Services Institute for Defense Studies in London. Rather than shows of force, Bolton counsels a gradual withdrawal of U.S. warships from the area, "while quiet diplomacy U.S. allies seeks an international...
...Chiang's gradual approach to liberalization is not likely to satisfy the political yearnings of the Democratic Progressives. Yet the opposition, which claims a membership of only 7,000, in contrast to the Kuomintang's 2.2 million, is not likely to pose a significant challenge anytime soon. Still technically illegal until a "civics organization law" is passed at the end of this year or early next, the Democratic Progressives suffer from a bad case of factionalism, which is certain to be aggravated by the recent release of long-imprisoned opposition leaders. Now that they are free again, they are sure...
...reserved, analytical and parsimonious, while she is warm, emotional and a bit extravagant. They raised three children: John Dukakis, 29, Kitty's son from her first marriage; Andrea, 21, who just graduated from Princeton; and Kara. John, now running the Dukakis campaign in the South, sees a gradual softening in his father's demeanor: "My mother has really helped him to express that it's not an invasion of privacy to show people that he cares for them...