Word: gradualness
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...Boston deliberations was Attorney Burke Balch of the National Legal Center for the Medically Dependent and Disabled, based in Indianapolis. In an interview, Balch insisted that all human lives are equally valuable, however handicapped the individual. He is concerned that the feeding debate is part of America's "gradual but steady progression" since the 1970s toward "acceptance of the idea that lives judged to be of poor quality are better off not being lived." He also fears that the fine distinctions that Catholic theology tries to make between mercy killing and being allowed to die "naturally" may evaporate...
Most experts who try to chart the course of racism over the years now believe that the substantial gains of the 1960s and 1970s came to a gradual halt after the election of Ronald Reagan. "The resurgence of racist feelings and continued illegal discrimination are fostered by the Administration's refusal to admit that racism may still be a problem," says Urban League President John Jacob. More specifically, he cites "its efforts to give tax- exempt status to segregated schools, its fight against extension of the civil rights law, its efforts to undermine affirmative action, to destroy the Civil Rights...
WHEN Gay W. Seidman '78 won election to the 30-member Board of Overseers last spring, she prevailed over a recalcitrant administration and initiated gradual but perceptible reforms in the governing body...
...international economic climate had become in the past 16 months. In September 1985 the so-called Plaza Accord on exchange rates was hammered out between Treasury Secretary James Baker, architect of the agreement, and the finance ministers of Japan, West Germany, France and Britain. It provided for a gradual and orderly decline in the value of the dollar, which had reached a peak in February 1985. Before last week, the dollar had dropped 28.7% against other major currencies...
Most professional dietitians favor a program of gradual, moderate changes in eating habits, often recommending "grazing," or eating many small meals throughout the day. It can take a year "to change people's ways of thinking and behaving in regard to eating," says Sherry Siegel, founder of a Chicago weight-consulting firm. There are also those who proffer unorthodox advice, like Oz Garcia, a successful, self-taught New York City nutritionist who decides what clients should eat after he has analyzed their hair. "I was a walking penny," says Amy Greene, 54, a makeup consultant at the chic Henri Bendel...